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Gustave Courbet - From the Beauty category:
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Beauty category:
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Copying category:
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Culture category:
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Education category:
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. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Expression category:
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Freedom category:
When I am dead, let it be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.' (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Freedom category:
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Knowledge category:
To know in order to do: such has been my thought. To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearance of my time as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Masters category:
-Eugene Boudin, 1937...
My God, you are a seraph, Boudin! You are the only one of us who really knows the sky! (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Mediocrity category:
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Painting category:
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of real and existing things... an object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Production category:
-on being asked to include angels in a painting for a church...
I have never seen angels. Show me an angel and I will paint one. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Reality category:
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Selling category:
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Talent category:
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. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Titles category:
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous. (Gustave Courbet)
Gustave Courbet - From the Words category:
Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings. (Gustave Courbet)
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