Quotes by Gustave Courbet - Page 1

I too am a government.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Government
Independence
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Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Fine
Made
Visible
Fine Art
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The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Denial
Mean
Principles
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When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Controversial
Important
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I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Angel
Paint
Show Me
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Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Language
Visible
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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Artist
Principles
Life Hope My Life
Life Art Hope
Abandoning
All My Life
Life Hope Art
Iota
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I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Angel
Goddess
Painting
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France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Artist
Civilized
France
Numbers
Small Numbers
Reside
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Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Artist
Expressive
Lying
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Beauty
Artist
Conception
Direct
Expression
Ratios
Acquired
Ratio
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Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Ideas
Titles
Would Be
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Individual
Relative
Truth Is
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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Artist
Essence
Negation
Painting
Realism
Representation
Transcendentalism
Visible
Forms
Ideal
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It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Ifs
Mediocrity
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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Concrete
Painting
Real
Representation
Consist
Essentially
Existing
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The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Freedom
Artistic
Matter
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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 / Painter
Art
Able
Ideas
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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 / Painter
Art
Ideas
Mean
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When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Character
Contrary
Inward
Examine
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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 / Painter
Ancient
Artist
Custody
Intense
Knowing
Quests
Sacred
Fond
Olden
Quest
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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 / Painter
Art
Hair
Principles
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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 / Painter
Art
Smile
Artist
Beautiful
Diverse
Form
Found
Reality
Most
Once
Belongs
Forms
Discovers
Encountered
Rather
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Beauty
Artist
Conception
Direct
Individual
Relative
Truth Is
Time Truth Power
Acquired
Grasp
Ratio
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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 / Painter
Art
Education
Inspiration
Past
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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Hands
Order
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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 / Painter
Cutting
Limits
Trying
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I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this 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 / Painter
Freedom
Church
School
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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 / Painter
Art
Copying
Prejudice
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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Art
Painting
Real
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On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).
Gustave Courbet / Painter
Criticism
Funeral
Meditation
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