"I never knew of but one artist, and that's Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is."
— Thomas Eakins

January 1, 1970

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Walt Whitman (16 April 1888), said in conversation with Horace Traubel and quoted by Traubel in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906), vol. I