Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.
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...
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.
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
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 o...