"Art or talent, for an artist, is merely……" — Gustave Courbet
"Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives."
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Gustave Courbet
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26 Quotes by Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet has 26 quotes on this site.
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found…
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
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I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
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When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
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France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
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I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
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I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden…
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
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I too am a government.
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