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."
Thomas Eakins: Maler
Thomas Eakins war US-amerikanischer realistischer Maler. Entdecken Sie interessante Zitate über maler.
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."
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."