Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….
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Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
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Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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Now this word SABAF, being by number Three score and Ten, is a name of Ayin, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST.
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.
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My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there's a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.
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The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.
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It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.
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It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.
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When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
