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Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.
Gustave Courbet
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Gustave Courbet
Age: 58 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 10
Died: 1877
Died: December 31
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