According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

According to some sources, the experience crushed him emotionally and ended his career as an artist.

According to Michelangelo's account, Bramante and Raphael convinced the Pope to commission Michelangelo in a medium not familiar to the artist.

According to his mother, in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist ’ s beginnings.

According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, actor Denzel Washington also confronted Tarantino on his usage of racial slurs in his pictures, but mentioned that Tarantino was a " fine artist.

According to Matthew Polly, a travel writer and martial artist, during the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong granted the Shaolin Temple extra land and special " imperial dispensation " to eat meat, and drink, which would make Shaolin the only temple in China that did not prohibit alcohol, although this practice has ceased today.

According to the artist, he arrived in New York in 1962 with nothing but 20 dollars and his portfolio of drawings.

According to Julianne Moore, the character of Maude was based on artist Carolee Schneemann, " who worked naked from a swing ," and Yoko Ono.

According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and " longing for concision and grace ".

According to Dr. John Lane, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 1997, although Van Vliet's work has associations with mainstream abstract expressionist painting, more importantly he was a self-taught artist and his painting " has that same kind of edge the music has.

According to secular history, in 1555 Bishop Alonso de Montúfar commissioned a Virgin of Guadalupe from a native artist, who gave her the dark skin which his own people shared with the famous Extremadura Virgin.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

According to commentary on the DVD collection for the show's first season, part of Krypton's appearance was influenced by the artistic style of American comic book artist Jack Kirby.

According to a later tradition preserved in Antoninus Liberalis, Aëdon is instead the wife of Polytechnos, an artist of Colophon.

According to artist Steve Purcell, that became a major limitation for the art team ; due to a low number of " ghastly " colors, they often chose bizarre tones for backgrounds.

According to Pliny, Alexander the Great offered his mistress, Pankaspe, as the model for the nude Venus and later, realizing that Apelles had fallen in love with the girl, gave her to the artist in a gesture of extreme magnanimity.

According to American artist George Caleb Bingham, himself a resident of Kansas City at the time, one could see the " dense columns of smoke arising in every direction ", symbolic of what he termed " a ruthless military despotism which spared neither age, sex, character, nor condition ".

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan holds the world record for the largest recorded output by a Qawwali artist — a total of 125 albums as of 2001.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Van Halen is the 19th best-selling band / artist in United States history, with sales of over 56 million albums in the U. S. and over 86 million albums worldwide, ( with the band's former record company, Warner Bros. Records, last certifying Van Halen's albums in 2004.

According to Rothko, this was the beginning of his life as an artist.

According to this view, this story, written near the end of Kafka's life, links the hunger artist with the author as an alienated artist who is dying.

According to the new media artist and theorist Maurice Benayoun, the first piece of interactive art should be the work done by Parrhasius during his art contest with Zeuxis described by Pliny, in the fifth century B. C.

According to John Ruskin's biographer Mary Lutyens, the notable author, artist, and art critic was apparently accustomed only to the hairless nudes portrayed unrealistically in art, never having seen a naked woman before his wedding night.

According to Carol Ann Brown, director of the gallery, the agents were most interested in the work entitled " Patriot Act " by Chicago-based artist Al Brandtner.

According to Neal Gabler, one of the reasons Disney had hired Rapf to work with Reymond was to temper what Disney feared would be Reymond's white Southern slant.

According to John Neal Phillips, Barrow's goal in life was not to gain fame or fortune from robbing banks, but to seek revenge against the Texas prison system for the abuses he suffered while serving time.

According to biographer Neal Gabler, Walt Disney disliked the Goofy cartoons, thinking they were merely " stupid cartoons with gags tied together " with no larger narrative or emotional engagement and a step backwards to the early days of animation.

According to Mark Anthony Neal, " neo-soul and its various incarnations has helped to redefine the boundaries and contours of black pop ".

According to The Mayo Clinic and Australian Professor Bruce Neal, the health consequences of ingesting sea salt or regular table salt are the same, as the content of sea salt is still mainly sodium chloride.

According to Neal Zaslaw, Cimarosa's librettist may have been Giuseppe Petrosellini, the house poet of the Teatro Valle where Le donne rivali premiered.

According to Wyatt Earp's biographer, Stuart Lake, Wyatt Earp and four other well-known western lawmen-Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, Charlie Bassett and Neal Brown-each received a Colt Single Action Army revolver as a gift from Ned Buntline.

According to The Mayo Clinic and Australian Professor Bruce Neal, the health consequences of ingesting sea salt or regular table salt are the same, as the content of sea salt is still mainly sodium chloride.

According to Genevieve Koski, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Sean O ' Neal, Kyle Ryan, and Scott Tobias of The A. V Club, the ' 90s saw a " dramatic increase " in diagnoses of behavioral disorders, such as ADHD, in children, and debates over whether or not to medicate children with concentration difficulties were heated.

According to the Neal Peirce Column of the Washington Post Writers Group, " Far and away the biggest catalyst is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

According to a memo published on the Internet allegedly authored by CEO Neal Patterson in 2001, a program of strict employee control was instituted due to some behavioral patterns and evidence Patterson perceived as being indicative of underachievement by Cerner's employees at the company's Kansas City, Missouri office.

According to Neal McHenry the procedure to produce another high Hyper-Radiant Fresnel Lens is no longer known.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

According to Chernow, during the Quasi-War, Jefferson engaged in a " secret campaign to sabotage Adams in French eyes.

According to the historian Samuel H. Adams, Harding's death was mourned by the nation and the average citizen felt a " personal loss ".

According to Adams ' account in The Salmon of Doubt, the idea behind The Meaning of Liff grew out of an old school game, and started when he and Lloyd were on holiday together.

According to James Henry Reynolds only four defenders were killed in the hospital: one was a member of the Natal Native Contingent with a broken leg ; Sgt Maxfield and Private Jenkins who were ill with fever and refused to be moved ; and a Private Adams who also refused to move.

According to Adams, Graham Williams " took me back to his place, locked me in his study and hosed me down with whisky and black coffee for a few days, and there was the script ".

According to Oregon Geographic Names, a Cedar Mill post office was established in 1874, in the John Quincy Adams Young House, which still stands on Cornell Road and is being renovated to become a Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District facility.

According to Douglas Adams, " Marvin came from Andrew Marshall.

According to Don't Panic, Douglas Adams wrote a guitar tune for the lullaby, and thought it should have been released.

According to some sources, with these releases Eldritch allegedly won, over Hussey and Adams, a race for a £ 25, 000 advance ( a sum opening the song Jihad on the Gift album ) offered by the publishers to the first member of The Sisters of Mercy to release any output.

According to Douglas Q. Adams, the Tocharians may have called themselves ākñi, meaning " borderers, marchers ".

According to another legend, Muhlenberg also suggested that the title of the President of the United States should be " Mr. President " instead of " His High Mightiness " or " His Elected Majesty ", as John Adams had suggested.

According to Adams, the album's title originates from a poster of Mariah Carey: " My manager called and said, ' You have 15 seconds to name this record ,' " My eyes focused on this poster of Mariah wearing a T-shirt that said HEARTBREAKER.

According to Adams, the label " took the last five songs, made it a bonus disc and put it on the first hundred and fifty thousand copies.

According to the legend, teamster named Adams and some prospectors in Arizona were approached by a Mexican Indian named Gotch Ear, who offered to show them a canyon filled with gold.

According to Adams, the premise of the game was inspired by a real-life experience.

According to the Bridge of the Gods tale, Wy ' east ( Mount Hood ) and Pahto ( Mount Adams ; also called Paddo or Klickitat by native peoples ) were the sons of the Great Spirit.

" According to American Film ( 1986 ), " Nick Adams, who was ... gay, was the butt of anti-gay humor in Pillow Talk.

" According to Eric Braun, " Elvis was attracted by Adams ' outgoing personality and the young actors caused quite a stir, cruising round Los Angeles with Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn and others on their Hondas .".

According to creator Scott Adams, the character is being based on, if not a member of, the beagle breed.

According to the strip from June 8 1997, Dogbert even celebrates Scott Adams ' birthday as his own, as Dogbert is written as being born on June 8, 1957.

According to testimony and accounts from the Dallas Morning News, Adams, who was under the influence, verbally assaulted a stewardess when he became belligerent when it was announced that liquor sales would no longer be available in flight.

According to Embry, the idea was for Embry to turn heel and start a long feud with Adams, but the crowd would not boo for Embry and turning Adams heel wouldn't work either, since he is a beloved figure in the area himself.