Thomas Eakins Quotes
- The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
- I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted…
- Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
- I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed…
- I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental…
- The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant…
- Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only…
- In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
- Strain your brain more than your eye.