Courbet Quotes

7 quotes by 7 authors

• The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the… — Jenny Saville
• Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour. — Vincent Van Gogh
• I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has… — Claude Monet
• It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads… — Theophile Gautier
• The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
• To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling… — Alfred Sisley
• Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang!… — Anthony Caro

Who Wrote These Courbet Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 7 Courbet Quotes as follows:

• 1 Courbet Quote by Vincent Van Gogh
• 1 Courbet Quote by Claude Monet
• 1 Courbet Quote by Theophile Gautier
• 1 Courbet Quote by Clement Greenberg
• 1 Courbet Quote by Alfred Sisley
• 1 Courbet Quote by Anthony Caro
• 1 Courbet Quote by Jenny Saville