Home / Topics / Models Quotes

Models Quotes

Browse 3179 quotes about Models.

Models Quotes

“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

“What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.”

Mind Use Interest Imagination Pay Models Paint Studios Granted Bus Pencils Hail

Author:Edgar Degas

“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”

Ifs Looks Natural Style Mountain Models Stones Paint Copies Cracks

Author:Cennino Cennini

“I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.”

Plans Models Paint Studios Love Making Arranging Arranging Things

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.”

Models Sitting Ideals Paint Location Lap

Author:Julian Green

“What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.”

“If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.”

Ifs Would Be Used Alive Models Paint Brushes Kate Moss Rubens Paint Brushes

Author:Dawn French

“If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.”

“I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.”

Art Moving Hate Flower Models I Hate Paint Cheaper

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”

People World Writing Firsts Kind Art Book Film Young Culture Energy Music Steps Creativity Talent Demand Models Paint Thrive First Steps

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.”

Ifs Soul Mountain Models Empty Blind Medicine Paint Painter Observation Impulse Encounters Bottles Shelves

Book:Adventure of painting

Source: Adventure of painting