About Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (UK: KOOR-bay, US: koor-BAY, French: [ɡystav kuʁbɛ]; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation...
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.