A Quote by Thomas Eakins
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
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The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.
She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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