Thomas Eakins Quotes
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.
No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him.
