in einem Brief an seinen Vater, zitiert in: Lloyd Goodrich: "Thomas Eakins - His Life And Work", Whitney Museum of American Art : New York 1933, S. 18, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "In a big picture you can see what o'clock it is, afternoon or morning, if it's hot or cold, winter or summer, and what kind of people are there, and what they are doing and why they are doing it."
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1879, zitiert in: Alice A. Carter, "The Essential Thomas Eakins", H. N. Abrams : New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-5830-9, S. 48, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "To study anatomy out of a book is like learning to paint out of a book. It's a waste of time."
in einem Interview über die Situation in Amerika in den 1860er Jahren, zitiert in: Llyod Goodrich, "Thomas Eakins", Harvard University Press : Cambridge und London 1982, ISBN 0-674-88490-6, Bd. 1, S. 10, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "The facilities for study in this country were meager. There were even no life classes in our art schools and schools of painting."
in einem Brief an seinen Vater, 1869, zitiert in: Alice A. Carter, "The Essential Thomas Eakins", H. N. Abrams : New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-5830-9, S. 27, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "One terrible anxiety is off my mind. I will never have to give up painting, for even now I could paint heads good enough to make a living anywhere in America. I hope not to be a drag on you a great while longer."
im September 1879, zitiert in: Marc Simpson, "The 1880s", S. 107, in Darrel Sewell, "Thomas Eakins", Yale University Press : Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0-87633-143-6, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "I think [the student] should learn to draw with color..... The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or stump."
im Februar 1886, kurz vor Errichtung der Art Students' League (ebendieser Schule), zitiert in: Marc Simpson, "The 1880s", S. 115, in Darrel Sewell, "Thomas Eakins", Yale University Press : Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0-87633-143-6, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "I would take no steps to organize such a school. That I can say positvely, and I don't believe any will be organized."
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„Ich sehe keine Ungebühr in der Betrachtung des schönsten Werkes der Natur, des nackten Körpers.“
im September 1886, in einem Brief an Edward H. Coates, zitiert in: Marc Simpson, "The 1880s", S. 116, in Darrel Sewell, "Thomas Eakins", Yale University Press : Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0-87633-143-6, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "I see no impropriety in looking at the most beautiful of Nature's work, the naked figure."
„Meine Ehrungen sind Missverständnis, Verfolgung und Missachtung, verstärkt weil nicht erstrebt.“
1894, zitiert in: Alice A. Carter, "The Essential Thomas Eakins", H. N. Abrams : New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-5830-9, S. 102, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "My honors are misunderstanding, persecution & neglect, enhanced because unsought."
zu Weda Cook Addicks, über das Bild Die Klinik Agnew (siehe Bild rechts), zitiert in: Llyod Goodrich, "Thomas Eakins", Harvard University Press : Cambridge und London 1982, ISBN 0-674-88490-6, Bd. 2, S. 46, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "They call me butcher, and all I was trying to do was to picture the soul of a great surgeon."
1914 in einem Interview, zitiert in: Marc Simpson, "The 1900s", S. 318, in Darrel Sewell, "Thomas Eakins", Yale University Press : Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0-87633-143-6, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "They are all nonsense, and no serious student should occupy his time with them."
Vorlesung in der Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1880, zitiert in: Alice A. Carter, "The Essential Thomas Eakins", H. N. Abrams : New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-5830-9, S. 6, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "If a man's fat, make him fat. If a man's thin, make him thin. If a man's short, make him short. If a man's long, make him long."
Thomas Eakins, "A Drawing Manual", Philadelphia Museum of Art und Yale University Press : New Haven und London 2005, ISBN 0-300-10847-8, S. 89, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "RELIEF HOLDS A PLACE between a painting or drawing on a flat surface and a piece of full sculpture."
A Drawing Manual
Thomas Eakins, "A Drawing Manual", Philadelphia Museum of Art und Yale University Press : New Haven und London 2005, ISBN 0-300-10847-8, S. 84, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "THERE IS SO MUCH BEAUTY in reflections that it is generally well worth while to try to get them right."
A Drawing Manual
Thomas Eakins: Zitate auf Englisch
Said to art critic Riter Fitzgerald, who quoted Eakins in an article in the Philadelphia Item (1895); from Sylvan Schendler, Eakins (1967), ch. 10.
Letter to the Society of American Artists (1892-05-07).
Letter to Harrison Morris (1894-04-23).
Letter from Madrid to Benjamin Eakins (1869-12-02).
Letter to Henry A. Rowland (1897-10-04).
Letter to Emily Sartain (1886-03-25). Frank Stephens was Eakins' brother-in-law.
Letter to his father, Benjamin Eakins (1867), quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933).
Advice to his art students; quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins (1933).
Letter to Benjamin Eakins (1868-03-03).
Letter to Benjamin Eakins (1868-03-03).
"The Differential Action of Certain Muscles Passing More than One Joint," lecture, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (1894-05-01).
Interview, Philadelphia Press; quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins (1933).
Testimonial dinner, Camden NJ, for Walt Whitman on his seventy-second birthday (1891-05-31) .
Thomas Eakins, in Vistas de España, Mary Elizabeth Boone, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 77.
Letter to Emily Sartain (ca. 1867); from Sylvan Schendler, Eakins (1967), footnote, ch. 10.
Letter of resignation to Edward Hornor Coates, Chairman of the Committee on Instruction, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1886-02-15).
Robert Hughes, "Thomas Eakins," Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (1990).
Robert Henri, open letter to the Art Students League, (1917-10-29).
