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Gustave Courbet

"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

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Donna Grant

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

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Donna Grant

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

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Donna Grant

"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."

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Donna Grant

"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."

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Donna Grant

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

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Donna Grant

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."

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Donna Grant

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

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Donna Grant

"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture."

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Donna Grant

"Sunlight is painting."

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

Art

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Gustave Courbet
"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."

Man

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Gustave Courbet
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."

Nationality

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Gustave Courbet
"Fine art is knowledge made visible."

Art

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Gustave Courbet
"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

Painting

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

Life

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Gustave Courbet
"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."

Nature

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Gustave Courbet
"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."

Beauty

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

Beauty

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Gustave Courbet
"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."

Wisdom

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