"I have studied the art of the masters and the of the moderns,..

...avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. No! I have simply wanted to draw from a thorough knowledge of tradition the reasoned and free sense of my own individuality."

Gustave Courbet


"rosa velha", brasil, 2008