I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.” — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy,… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“The title of Realist was thrust upon me just as the title of Romantic was imposed upon the men of 1830. Titles have never… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“The real artists are those who pick up their age exactly at the point to which it has been carried by preceding times. To… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
