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• A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Color, Focus, Design

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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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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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• There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

  Bell Hooks

  Effort, Understanding, Way

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• It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Art, Use, Development

  Rudolf Steiner (2003). “Art: An Introductory Reader”, p.146, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.

  Cameron Russell

  Insecure, Planets

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• I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.

  John Christy

  Real, Climate, World

  "Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds". Interview with Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

  Gerhard Richter

  Reality, Abstract, Existence

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 07, 2013

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

  Tiger Woods

  Positive, Thinking, Light

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• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

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• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Years, Ten

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

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• Each person must live their life as a model for others.

  Rosa Parks

  Life, Morning, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• Young people need models, not critics.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Youth Of Today, Nba

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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• The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

  Robert Henri

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Feelings, Typical

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Saws, Firsts

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.

  Howard Pyle

  Fall, Color, Light

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• It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Painting, Curtains

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.

  Paul Gauguin

  Skills, Moral, Possession

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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