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“I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.”

Moral Depends Skills Models Possession Painter

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“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

“The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.”

Wells Ideas Wish Memories Answers Masters Models Drawing Impression Painter Acquire Facility

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.”

Known Painting Models Painter Good Work

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.”

Ifs Persons Quality Taken Models Painter

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

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

“In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.”

Beautiful Opinion Models Aspect Strive Debt Painter Finest Giotto

Book:Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

Source: Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“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.”

“I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.”

Thinking Stills Term Models Photograph Painter Costumes Backdrop

Author:Loretta Lux

“It's called "Pickman's Mephitic Models," based on the story [Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft].Certain things about it many people don't realize. Pickman was a real painter who lived between 1888 and 1926. Now, there's a question mark [gesturing toward the writing in the margins of the painting], because Lovecraft claims that he turned into a ghoul. God knows how old he is now.”

People Knows Writing Real Stories Certain Realizing Know How Painting Models Claims Mark Painter God Knows Margins Ghouls Question Mark Lovecraft

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.”

Knows Persons Real Helping Models Scripts Real Life Painter Instance Enjoyed Help Me Frank

Author:Al Pacino

“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