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“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Men Wells Faces Artist He Man Painting One Day Models Paint Features Canvas Portraits Portraiture

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.”

Looks Reality Artist Lost Models Careful Departure

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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 he falls below the niveau of his great rival.”

Trying Artist Fall Models Thoughtful Construction Rivals

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.”

Sometimes Artist Realizing Study Models

Author:Paul Cezanne

“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 good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

Firsts Littles Persons Made Artist Models Sculpture Modelling

Author:Alberto Giacometti

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

Body Artist Opportunity Seeing Capable Models Mature

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”

Inspiration Science Artist Imagination Design Models Slavery Slave Enthusiasm Conformity My Imagination Be A Slave Non Conformity Quench

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.”

Years Remember Artist Found Waiting Space Technology Needed Ten Mountain Models Difficulty

Author:John Hench

“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.”

Artist Next Interest Models Copies Accurate Hung

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.”

Giving Wells Body Artist Sex Easy Known Fine Models Dresses Proportion Well Known Statues

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau