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“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever”
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“Hammer out the drawing. Unremitting, persistent effort will bend a stubborn ungainly sketch into a graceful finished drawing. We become tough, hardened drawing veterans.”
― The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective On the Classical Tradition
― The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective On the Classical Tradition
“The masters must be copied over and over again," Degas said, "and it is only after proving yourself a good copyist that you should reasonably be permitted to draw a radish from nature." Degas first received permission to copy paintings at the Louvre in 1853 when he was eighteen. He was most interested in the great works of the Italian Renaissance and of his own classical French heritage, hence this detailed copy of Poussin's painting”
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“It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.”
― History of My Life, Vols. I & II
― History of My Life, Vols. I & II
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