"I deny that art can be taught, or,……" — Gustave Courbet
"I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition."
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Gustave Courbet
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26 Quotes by Gustave Courbet
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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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