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

Gustave Courbet · Beauty

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Gustave Courbet

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.

Beauty

Gustave Courbet

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Wisdom

Gustave Courbet

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

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Henry David Thoreau

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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