Figure Quotes

2773 Figure quotes by 2038 unique authors

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put… — Ben Stiller
A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to… — Eric Bolling
The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure… — Jamie Bell
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is… — Isaac D'Israeli
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked… — Ambrose Bierce
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must… — Thomas Hood
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own...… — Leonardo da Vinci
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a… — Leonardo da Vinci
There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it… — Conan O'Brien
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes. — Vincent Van Gogh
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult… — Henry Moore
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are… — Bernard Berenson
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. — Philip James Bailey
Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad… — Matt Kemp
Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts… — Henri Matisse
It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,… — John Ruskin
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is… — John Ruskin
How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that.… — Jim Rohn
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for… — Howard Pyle
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you… — Paul Gauguin
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… — John Berger

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