“Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.” LooksBookHeavenSunStudyAuthorityGlorious Author:William Shakespeare
“I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.” FirstsLooksSoulHandsLinesStudyLateSacredMereSuspectsPortraitsExaltedRapturePortraitureSelf PortraitSelf Portrait Photography Book:Mark Twain's works Source: Mark Twain's works
“When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.” LooksDoeDifferentFeelingsStudyQuietModelsDrawsOrdinaryDrawingSteadyTypical Book:Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885 Source: Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885
“Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.” LooksStudySubjectsPaintOneself Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.” MenWorldFirstsLooksChildrenEyeMotherPassionSpeakUnderstandingStepsWatchesStruggleStudyExampleSourceArmsHabitFirst TimePrejudiceMirrorsStrikesHis EyesCradleBack In TimeWrappingPower Of ThoughtUnclear Author:Alexis de Tocqueville