Quotes by : Gustave Courbet

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

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

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

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

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

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....

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