Art Quotes by Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet

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

Art

Language

Visible

Gustave Courbet

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

Gustave Courbet

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Art

Fine

Made

Gustave Courbet

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

Gustave Courbet

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art’s sake.

Art

Copying

Prejudice

Gustave Courbet

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair’s breadth from my principles… to please anyone or to sell more easily.

Art

Hair

Principles

Gustave Courbet

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

Art

Hands

Order

Gustave Courbet

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

Art

Artist

Principles

Gustave Courbet

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Art

Ifs

Mediocrity

Gustave Courbet

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

Art

Painting

Real

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France

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Government

Hair

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Limits

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Painting

Prejudice

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Ratios

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Art Quotes by 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.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

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 studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art’s sake.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair’s breadth from my principles… to please anyone or to sell more easily.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

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

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

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

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