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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

Source: Preface to World's Fair Catalog.
-- 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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