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“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.”

Looks Study Subjects Paint Oneself

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Light Form Dark Rooms Study Painting Tests Paint Checks Twilight Resonance Dark Room

Author:Will Barnet

“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.”

Character Wanted My Own Study Subjects Paint Portraits Portraiture

Author:William Dobell

“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

“Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.”

Littles Made Study Originals Paint Observation Dust Desert Fearful Obscure Pencils Barren

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.”

Want Should Film Artist Grows Study Growing Paint Crafts

Author:LeCrae

“The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.”

Life Humans Natural Human Beings Study Flower Instinct Charity Fruit Paint Privilege Meadows Refinement Natural Instinct

Author:George Bancroft