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“I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.”

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Author:Armstrong Williams

“I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers. Shopping was now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger.”

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Book:Kingdom Come

Source: Kingdom Come

“In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.”

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Author:Auguste Rodin

“There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.”

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Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.”

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Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain

Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain

“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.”

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Author:Frederick Franck