Courbet, Self-Portrait with Pipe, 1849
Gustave Courbet was born on this day in 1819.
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition. 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 Courbet
Courbet, The Seaside at Palavas, 1854
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