Gustave Courbet Quotes About Representation

• Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Essence, Transcendentalism

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

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Real, Painting

• Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Real, Painting

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