Courbet's Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about Courbet's
Courbet's Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Courbet's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.
— Gustave Courbet
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
— Robert Hughes
Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.
— Stasia Ward Kehoe
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.
— Gustave Courbet
The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.
— Harold Jeffreys
As the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.
— Joshua Slocum
So the first and most important step for Mr Fix-it is to listen for the right thing: how she feels about the emotional issue she's bringing to you.
— Shaunti & Jeff Feldhahn
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
— Gustave Courbet
I too am a government.
— 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.
— Gustave Courbet
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
— Gustave Courbet
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
— Gustave Courbet
When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
— Gustave Courbet
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.
— Gustave Courbet
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
— Gustave Courbet
I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
— Gustave Courbet
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
— Gustave Courbet
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
— Gustave Courbet
People not versed in our culture only ever imagine that the person at risk in a BDSM dynamic is a sub.
— Sarah Michelle Lynch
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
— Gustave Courbet
Those who are fear'd, are hated.
— Benjamin Franklin
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
— Gustave Courbet
Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go ...
— Boy George
One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.
— Michael Lewis
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
— Gustave Courbet
The play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.
— Albert Camus
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
— Gustave Courbet
Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
— Louise Penny
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
— Gustave Courbet
I might've worried she'd slit my throat in my sleep. Now that I know she probably will, I find I'm not as concerned.
— K.F. Breene
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
— Deb Caletti
First one's free.
— Lilith Saintcrow