Art Quote by Thomas Eakins Download Open image “The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.” — Thomas Eakins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art education Artist Bigs Eye Nature Stealing Tools
She's an artist, her wrist is her canvas and her blade is her paint brush — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shes an artist, a painter actually. See that smile on her face? Its her most famous piece! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master,… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect. — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
