Quotes by Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art

Language

Visible

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

Art

Ideas

Mean

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

Artist

Expressive

Lying

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

Individual

Relative

Truth Is

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Art

Fine

Made

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

Artist

France

Small Numbers

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: ‘He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.’

Church

Freedom

School

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.

Artist

Knowing

Quests

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.

Art

Education

Inspiration

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.

Angel

Paint

Show Me

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Government

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Quotes by Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

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

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

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

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: ‘He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.’

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.

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.

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