Gustave Courbet

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ”

Fine art is knowledge made visible. ”