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Quote by Gustave Courbet
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet

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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. – Gustave Courbet

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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet

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Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? – Jeb Bush

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. – Julie Burchill

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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. – James Dean

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