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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 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 Courbe...
• Painting is the representation of visible forms. . .
  The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbe...
• Rank and salary are proportional to the power/competence ratio.
• He has not acquired fortune; fortune has acquired him. -- Bio
• He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bio
• The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.
  -- Alan Deitz...
• 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....
• One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
  -- Gustave Flaubert (letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 12, 1846)...