Figure Painting Quotes

• Si lo que te mueve es el amor a lo que tu obra representa; si, como pintor de paisajes, lo que te mueve es el amor a las colinas y a los árboles; si, como pintor de figuras, lo que te mueve es el amor a la belleza humana y al alma humana; si, como pintor de flores o de animales, lo que te mueve es el amor, el asombro y el deleite en el pétalo y en el miembro, entonces el Espíritu está sobre ti, y la tierra es tuya, y su plenitud.

  John Ruskin

  Flor, Mudanza, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cocinero (1905). "Obras"

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• De la fuerza mezclada de sombra y luz Una nueva creación se eleva a mi vista, Tales figuras celestiales de su lápiz fluyen, Tan cálidos con luz sus colores mezclados brillan. . . . . Los retratos brillantes, recién salidos de la vida, que traen a nuestros corazones la verdad de la que surgen.

  Lord Byron

  Primavera, Hogar, Corazón

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• Hay que hacer algo para mayo, se acerca el momento de figurar en el catálogo y atraer la atención del público. Algo debo inventar y pintar; Pero oh, mi ingenio no es Como uno de esos amables sustantivos Que responden ¿Quién y Qué?

  Thomas Hood

  Eye, Drawing, Done

  Thomas Hood (1862). "las obras de thomas hood", p.361

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• I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Color, Ordinary, Landscape

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• En la pintura de figuras, el tipo de toda pintura, me he esforzado por exponer que la fuente principal, si no única, de los encantos de la vida son los valores táctiles, el movimiento y la composición espacial.

  Bernard Berenson

  Espacio, Encanto, Movimiento

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• Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Painting, Abandoned, Monet

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• It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and [Robert von Neumann ] would wander around and he'd come up behind someone and say, "Well, what are you trying to do?" And if you told him what you were trying to do, he would then proceed to discuss this with you and suggest things that you might look at and ways in which you could improve what you were attempting to do, etc - never worked on your painting, never touched your painting but talked extensively about what you were trying to do.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Class, Trying, Looks

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

  Claes Oldenburg

  People, East, Sides

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Littles, Stuff, Strange

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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