Gustave Courbet

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

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?