Quotes about models

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which ass

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit and intellect--even if rejected--enrich and enlarge one's view of existence. Deadlier still, to the artist who lacks models, is the curse of ridicule, the bringing to bear on an artist's best work, especially his or her most original, most strikingly deviant, only a fund of ignorance and the presumption that as an ar

From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.

Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm n

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

During the shoot in November 2003, I was vaguely aware of the stylist’s sulky demeanor and eye-rolling vibe, but I blocked her out. Some fashion people are snotty drama queens; this is not news. Whatever was going on with her, I was determined to be positive and not get infected by her energy. Later, Fiorella told me that the entire time I was in makeup, the stylist had been clomping up and down the hall, sputtering into her cell phone, “I can’t believe I have to style a FAT GIRL!” Believe it, b

The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was n

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, that of the modeler fr

—except for the fact that your scars mean you’ve been hurting, I am one-hundred-percent cool with having them in the painting. Some models, especially the professional ones, it’s like painting air-brushed people. Give me something raw any day.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

A good example is the best sermon.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Example has more followers than reason.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.