“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the one than to copy the other; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of 'art for art's sake.'”

About Gustave Courbet

Painter • French

Gustave Courbet was a pivotal French painter and a leading figure in the Realism movement. He rejected the prevailing Romantic and Neoclassical traditions, instead depicting unidealized peasants and workers on a grand...