Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Thomas Eakins

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• If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

  

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  

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• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

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• I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

  

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• You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.

  

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• Coinbase is 'the' brand in the Bitcoin space. Their founder Brian Armstrong was amongst the first good entrepreneurs to emerge in this space. While others championed ideological or underground/illicit interests, Brian saw an opportunity to change the world for the better and build a big business out of it.

  

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• The swarming, grunting masses of jackals...

  

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• There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

  

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• The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.

  

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• I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

  

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• I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.

  

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• Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

  

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• For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

  

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• In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

  

  Thomas Eakins
  • Simple
  • Painting
  • Simplicity