Models Quotes

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One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above… — Paul Cezanne
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — Paul Cezanne
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. — Paul Cezanne
The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly… — Joshua Reynolds
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all… — Joshua Reynolds
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of… — Joshua Reynolds
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and… — Benjamin Hooks
The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model. — Eugene Delacroix
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when… — Eugene Delacroix
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for… — Eugene Delacroix
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. — Cennino Cennini
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all… — Cennino Cennini
A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and… — George Grosz
Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the… — William Morris Hunt
Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future. — Steve Pavlina
I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience… — Giancarlo Esposito
I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people… — Lucian Freud
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. — Lucian Freud

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