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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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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every song is like a painting."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

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Amber Hurdle

"Painting is a hobby for me."

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Amber Hurdle

"It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me."

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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
"Fine art is knowledge made visible."

Art

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

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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."

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

Life

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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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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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