Quote by Paul Cézanne from 'What he told me – I. The motif', in Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906); Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 164
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* But what an eye Monet has, the most prodigious eye since painting began! I raise my hat to him. As for Courbet, he already had the image in his eye, ready-made. Monet used to visit him [Courbet], you know, in his early days.
— Paul Cézanne from 'What he told me – I. The motif'
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Source: Wikiquote: "Gustave Courbet" (Quotes about Gustave Courbet: sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes about Courbet, after 1900)
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About Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who was a leading figure in the Realist movement of 19th-century French painting.
About Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who was a leading figure in the Realist movement of 19th-century French painting.
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