Models Quotes

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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
The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I… — Henri Matisse
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my… — Edgar Degas
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
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... — Paul Gauguin
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct… — Auguste Rodin
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention… — Ernest Dimnet
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without a model. — David Hockney
I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand… — Ben Stein
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins… — Sathya Sai Baba
Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice... — Sathya Sai Baba
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. — Robert Henri
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. — Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized. — Robert Henri
Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first? — Robert Henri
There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her.… — Robert Henri
I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without… — Damien Hirst
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful… — Paul Cezanne

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