Gustave Courbet Quotes

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense i...

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

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

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. T...

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let...