Thomas Eakins
Quotations

"The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools."

 

"My honors are misunderstanding, persecution & neglect, enhanced because unsought. "

 

"Should men make only the statues of men to be looked at by men, while the statues of women should be made by women to be looked at by women only? Should the he-painters draw the horses and bulls, and the she-painters…the mares and cows?"