Courbet Art Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.' — Chi McBride

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

Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to. — Alan Keyes

But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again. — Larry McMurtry

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why. — Neal Shusterman

Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe - Gray — Walter Dean Myers

The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was. — C.J. Brightley

I couldn't figure Brent out. Sort of like if Prince Charming saw Cinderella in sweats, pimply-faced, and covered in ice cream stains, and he still took her to the ball. What did he see in me that screamed "rebel"? — Abigail Baker

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. — Martin L. Gross

Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible. — Gustave Courbet

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

It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself — Ndiritu Wahome

Fine art is knowledge made visible. — Gustave Courbet

And so, he knows. He wants, he needs, to do the immoral, irresponsible thing. He wants to let this boy court his own destruction. He wants to commit that cruelty. Or (kinder, gentler version) he doesn't want to reconfirm his allegiance to the realm of the sensible, all the good people who take responsibility, who go to the right and necessary parties, who sell art made of two-by-fours and carpet remnants. He wants, for at least a little while, to live in that other, darker world - Blake's London, Courbet's Paris; raucous, unsanitary places where good behavior was the province of decent, ordinary people who produced no works of genius. — Michael Cunningham

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

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. — Gustave Courbet

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

Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums. — Jules Breton