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: