I Too Am A Government.

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

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

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).

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.

Fine Art Is Knowledge Made Visible.