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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 régime except the régime of liberty.

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Freedom Liberty

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

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Angels Art Philosophy

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.

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Art Beautiful Artist

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.

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Time Beauty Truth

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Art Fine Made

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

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Life Hope Live

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

~ Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Painting Real Concrete
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