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...
More quotations from Gustave Courbet
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
More quotations tagged with “principles”
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.