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I have but little patience with the false modesty which is the greatest enemy to all figure painting.

— Thomas Eakins

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I see no impropriety in looking at the most beautiful of Nature's works, the naked figure. If there is impropriety, then just where does such impropriety begin?

I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.

We appreciate politeness when we are far from home. We may have different ideas of the word.

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.

Advice to his art students; quoted in Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933)

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