Human Figure Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

• In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men… — Benjamin Rush
• For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
• What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. — Henri Matisse
• Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the… — Auguste Rodin
• To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere. — Umberto Boccioni
• A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive… — Barry S. Strauss
• Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live… — Chuck Jones
• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:… — Rabindranath Tagore
• I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes… — Camille Paglia
• 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
• It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse
• Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of… — Robert Henri
• Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head. — Rudolf Steiner
• Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything… — Irving Stone
• I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a… — Irving Stone
• As I glance at you from across the room, the world stops spinning. My problems become imaginary as the happy loom across your face becomes… — David

Who Wrote These Human Figure Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 18 Human Figure Quotes as follows:

• 2 Human Figure Quotes by Irving Stone
• 2 Human Figure Quotes by Henri Matisse
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Camille Paglia
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Henry Moore
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Robert Henri
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Rudolf Steiner
• 1 Human Figure Quote by David
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Benjamin Rush
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Ruth Bernhard
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Auguste Rodin
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Umberto Boccioni
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Barry S. Strauss
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Chuck Jones
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Rabindranath Tagore
• 1 Human Figure Quote by Edward Weston