Depends Quote by Paul Gauguin

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

— Suzanne Farrell

I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.

— Josephine de La Baume

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he…

— Patti Smith

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

— Amy Sherald

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of…

— Loretta Lux

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort…

— Kehinde Wiley

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

— Julian Schnabel

I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

— Kirsty Hume

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner