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“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”

Ifs Men Giving I Can Beautiful Poor Study Saws Circumstances Paint Naked Beautiful Things

Book:Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.”

Firsts Kind House Sun Saws Pieces Subjects Effects Wind Circumstances Rain Awful Conventional Lightning Thunder Surroundings Acquaintance Daylight Spooky

Book:Ghost stories

Source: Ghost stories

“For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality.”

Feels Important Moments Reality Eye Records Saws Circumstances Cameras Photograph Manage

Book:Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998

Source: Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998

“And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.”

Whole Saws Week Events Fields Months Circumstances Clinton Playing Fields

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.”

Light Names Saws Circumstances Busy Like Me Dust Streams Sunlight Floats Nameless

Book:Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing