To Be Able To Translate The Customs,

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.

Painting Is An Essentially Concrete Art And Can Only Consist Of The Representation Of Real And Existing Things.

The Principle Of Realism Means Denial Of The Ideal.

Art Is A Wholly Physical Language Whose Words Are All The Visible Objects.