Logo
Quote by Gustave Courbet
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to

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

Other quotes by Gustave Courbet

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

Category:
Beauty
Author
Gustave Courbet
Read Quote

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

Category:
Wisdom
Author
Gustave Courbet
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that. – Cindy Margolis

Category:
Beauty

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles. – Pamela Anderson

Category:
Beauty

Its how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that? – Hilary Swank

Category:
Beauty

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. – Donna Rice

Category:
Beauty

Random Quotes

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

Category:
Black History

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Society

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. – Iain Banks

Category:
legal

We shouldnt be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code. – Rob Portman

Category:
Leadership