The Principle Of Realism Means Denial Of

France Is The Only Nation In Which Astoundingly Small Numbers Of Civilized Patrons Reside.

I Am Not One Who Was Born In The Custody Of Wisdom; I Am One Who Is Fond Of Olden Times And Intense In Quest Of The Sacred Knowing Of The Ancients.

Beauty, Like Truth, Is Relative To The Time When One Lives And To The Individual Who Can Grasp It.

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

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).