I Am Not One Who

When I Am No Longer Controversial, I Will No Longer Be Important

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

The Principle Of Realism Means Denial Of The Ideal.

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

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).