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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Source: In Artists on Art: From the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1945.
-- Gustave Courbet, (Jun 10 1819-1877), French painter; He was a leader of the realist movement rebelling against the romantics; painted The Stone Breakers, 1849.

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