"France is the only nation in which astoundingly……" — Gustave Courbet
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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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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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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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
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[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to…
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so…
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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that…
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The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from…
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I…
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