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• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Confused, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Believe, Athlete

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• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Athlete, Fighting

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• One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Reality, Sometimes

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.172, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Reality, Study

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.123

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• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Synthesis, Nocturnal

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• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Real

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Study, Sometimes

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• The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Benefits, Produce, Consulting

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• Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Keys, Doors, Turns

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• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Memories, Drawing, Ideas

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• If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

  Cennino Cennini

  Style, Mountain, Cracks

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• I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Good Work, Painter

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• A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Girl, Owl, Alive

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• The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.

  George Grosz

  Art, Teaching, Engineering

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• I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

  Lucian Freud

  People, Care, Rooms

  Lucian Freud, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1974). “Lucian Freud: catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 January-3 March 1974 ... and at 3 other galleries, 6 April-23 June 1974”

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• At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Artist, Sculpture, Littles

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• When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

  Gerhard Richter

  Animal, Reality, Tree

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Painting, Finest, Maidens

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• You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

  Norman Rockwell

  Expression, Relax, Firsts

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• I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.

  Alice Neel

  Character, Done, World

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• It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

  Igor Babailov

  Luxury, Important, Busy

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• I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.

  L. S. Lowry

  Grateful, Tenants, Collecting

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• I'm not a role model.

  Charles Barkley

  Role Models, Roles

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• Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Opportunity, Artist, Body

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