Top 29 Quotes About Eakins
#1. Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.
Barry S. Strauss
#2. The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
Barry S. Strauss
#3. I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
Jamie Wyeth
#4. I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.
Thomas Eakins
#5. I don't think good films have messages.
Julia Leigh
#6. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#7. Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
Ben Feldman
#8. When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .
Sun Bin
#9. I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental unobtrusive and to musicians I think it emphasized the expression of the face and pose of the figure.
Thomas Eakins
#10. In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
Thomas Eakins
#11. Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path
Rajneesh
#12. Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, ... but the Passage of Soul.
Neal A. Maxwell
#13. Somehow you made trudging through the wilderness in the middle of winter with a soul-sucking demon and a soul-sucked would-be murderer seem not so terrible. "But
Emily Croy Barker
#14. The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
Thomas Eakins
#15. aphorism 129:
I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.
Matt Berry
#16. Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
#17. That isn't fair." Her voice came out small, barely a whisper. "I didn't ask to be thrown into all this. I didn't ask to fall for a guy that isn't even human. It just happened and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do next so if you have some magical guidebook, I'd love to borrow it.
Airicka Phoenix
#18. My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
Thomas Eakins
#19. A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
Thomas Eakins
#21. No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
Thomas Eakins
#22. A sure cure for seasickness is to stand underneath a tree.
Spike Milligan
#23. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran
#24. When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
Thomas Eakins
#25. Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans ... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.
Thomas Eakins
#26. The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump ... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.
Thomas Eakins
#27. How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!
Thomas Eakins
