Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
Gustave CourbetI 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.'
Gustave CourbetThe expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave CourbetFrance is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Gustave Courbet