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• Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
  The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....
• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
  -- Gustave Courbe...
• Painting is the representation of visible forms. . .
  The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbe...
• 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....
• My art belongs to Dada
• Of all lies, art is the least untrue. -- Gustave Flaube
• Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
  Kahlil Gibra...
• Art thou an artist, or art thou art?
• function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely.
  The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-penciling the bad spelling of God....