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Gustave Courbet has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to…
• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs…
• Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
• I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
• When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
• France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
• I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
• I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
• I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and…
• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
• Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
• I too am a government.

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