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Gustave Courbet: Painting is the...

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Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Source: In Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art, 1973.
-- 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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