Figures Quotes

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Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. — Jean de la Bruyere
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. — Richard P. Feynman
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
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
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
How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement. — Michelangelo
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter… — Leonardo da Vinci
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator… — 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
My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my… — Henri Matisse

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