The Principle Of Realism Means Denial Of

I Hope To Live All My Life For My Art, Without Abandoning My Principles One Iota.

On The Left Is The Realist Tradition Of The 19th Century, With Its Impulse To Social Description, Radical Criticism And Meditation On Things As They Are... Culminating In Courbet At His Mightiest (the Studio, The Funeral At Ornans And A Portrait Of A Trout That Has More Death In It Than Rubens Could Get In A Whole Crucifixion).

Painting Is The Representation Of Visible Forms. The Essence Of Realism Is Its Negation Of The Ideal.

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.

When I Am No Longer Controversial, I Will No Longer Be Important