Models Quotes

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 associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets.

~ Edward Carpenter

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Ngaio Marsh

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

~ Wayne Chirisa

Nowadays, nobody can teach you a useful thing about life, since models are outdated one moment after.

~ Marino Baccarini

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

~ Stafford Beer

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

~ Sunday Adelaja

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 artist's critic one's judgement is free of the restrictions imposed by prejudice, and is well informed, indeed, about all the art in the world that really matters.

~ Alice Walker

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.

~ Jean Baudrillard

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.

~ Steven Levenkron

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.

~ Randy Alcorn

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

~ Jess Lowe

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Melvin Schwartz

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 not a character.

~ Lisa Samson

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

~ Mie Hansson

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

—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.

~ J. Kenner

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 from Anspach, who slowly squeezed the soul and the life out of his model in order to animate his painted waxwork and then, having finished his work of art, awaited nightfall to go and bury the corpse in the ditch at the city walls.

~ Jean Lorrain

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

~ Roman Payne

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 not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had.

~ John Steinbeck

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, bitch.

~ Crystal Renn

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.

~ Werner Heisenberg

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

~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

~ Cathy Warner Weatherford

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

~ Baltasar Gracián

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.

~ Harry S. Truman

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?

~ Jeanette Winterson

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.

~ Ann Richards

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

~ Tyron Edwards

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

~ Hilde Bigelow

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.

~ Rachel Carson

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

~ Beata Rank

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

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

~ Charles H. Fowler

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.

~ Francesco Guicciardini

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.

~ Mark Twain

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

~ Plutarch