What did courbet mean when he said, "i cannot paint an angel because i have never seen one"?

Courbet mean when he said, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one" is that he painted only what he saw and not what he imagined. Gustave Courbet (goo-stahv coor-bay) believed that an artist should only paint things from his or her own world, time, and experience.

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