“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.” ArtRealLanguageObjectsPaintingRealmsAbstractVisibleConcreteRepresentation Author:Gustave Courbet
“Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.” FormArtistPaintingIdealsEssenceVisibleRealismRepresentationTranscendentalismNegation Author:Gustave Courbet
“Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.” ArtLanguageObjectsArt IsVisible Author:Gustave Courbet
