Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet Biography:
"I, who believe that every artist should be his own teacher, cannot dream of setting myself up as a professor. For each artist, art is nothing but the talent issuing from his own inspiration and his own studies of tradition,' wrote Gustave Courbet. Emphatic in his opinions and constantly defying authority, Courbet believed that painters should paint art, prints and posters of only their own time and that "painting is an essentially concrete art, and can consist only of representation of real and existing things.'  >>click here for more