“The museums are there to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, as they spark in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.”

“Les musées sont là pour apprendre l’histoire de l’art et quelque chose en plus; car, s’ils suscitent, chez les faibles, des désirs d’imitation, ils donnent, aux forts, des moyens d’émancipation.”

“The most sensible men I know (taken as a class) are painters; that is, they are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.”

“What artist ever looked at the Belvedere Torso without feeling a warmth of enthusiasm, as from the highest effects of poetry?  From whence does this proceed?  What is there in this fragment that produces this effect, but the perfection of this science of abstract form?”

“Poussin had the habit of saying that it is by observing things that the painter becomes skillful, more than in tiring himself by copying them. Yes: but the painter must have eyes.”

“Poussin avait coutume de dire que c’est en observant les choses que le peintre devient habile plûtot qu’en se fatiguant à les copier.

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“To capture for oneself the talent of the Ancients and find it again in Nature.”

[S’approprier le talent des Anciens et le retrouver sur la Nature.]

– le Comte de Caylus, Vie de Bouchardon (1763)

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STUDIO ESCALIER was founded in 2001, by the artists Timothy Stotz, Anthony Ryder and Nicole Michelle Tully, in Argenton-Chateau, France.

In 2007, Stotz and Tully also began offering drawing programs in their own studio in Paris, while Ryder founded his own studio school in Santa Fe, NM (USA).…