Original Plaster Model

Famous quotes containing the words original, plaster and/or model:

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall,
Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals,
Focus the tragic melancholy of the bright stare
Into nowhere, a hole like the black holes in space.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“When Titian was mixing brown madder,
His model was posed up a ladder.
Said Titian, “That position
Calls for coition,”
So he lept up the ladder and had her.”
—Anonymous.