Alive Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl…

— Robert A Heinlein

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old…

— Robert Heinlein

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged…

— Philip Pearlstein

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

— John Ciardi

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

— Anonymous

We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what…

— Frederick Lenz

I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or…

— John Irving

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

“Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. Her hair, partially silvered by age, was parted…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe