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Gustave Courbet Art Quotes I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. -- Gustave Courbet QuoteFrance is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. -- Gustave Courbet Quote Fine art is knowledge made visible. -- Gustave Courbet Quote The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. -- Gustave Courbet Quote Painting is the representation of visible forms. . . The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbet Quote When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. -- Gustave Courbet Quote I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. -- Gustave Courbet Quote Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things . . . an object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting. -- Gustave Courbet Quote
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