I Am Not One Who

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).

I Have Never Seen Either Angels Or Goddesses, So I Am Not Interested In Painting Them.

To Be Able To Translate The Customs, Ideas And Appearance Of My Times As I See Them - In A Word, To Create A Living Art - This Has Been My Aim.

Beauty Lies In Nature And Reveals, Once The Artist Has Perceived It, Its Own Expressive Power.

Titles Have Never Given A Just Idea Of Things; Were It Otherwise, The Work Would Be Superfluous.