Thomas Eakins Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

Jamie Wyeth

#3. 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

#4. Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.

Kirby Clements

#5. I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

Ronda Rousey

#6. If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

Rajneesh

#7. We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious ... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. 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

#9. In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Thomas Eakins

#10. The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

Thomas Eakins

#11. Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Thomas Eakins

#12. They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

Sirhan Sirhan

#13. My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Thomas Eakins

#14. 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

#15. Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

Demetri Martin

#16. Strain your brain more than your eye.

Thomas Eakins

#17. No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.

Thomas Eakins

#18. My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be.

Sonia Rykiel

#19. When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

Thomas Eakins

#20. 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

#21. Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish."
"What's the difference?" (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

#22. 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

#23. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.

Seneca.

#24. How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

Thomas Eakins

#25. As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Oerter

#26. But I've got a gun," she said, twirling it on two fingers.
"A gun with bullets is worse than no gun at all.

Lissa Price

#27. It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

Maelle Gavet

#28. You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last name. When the trumpet blares, there will be no more kings, only slaves. And your family traditions will not be able to keep you safe.

Boonaa Mohammed

#29. It smells like heartbreak in here," said Jace.

Cassandra Clare