"Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them."

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I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'

— Gustave Courbet