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 Edmond Ludlow, " The Wallingford House party, as if infatuated by a superior power to procure their own destruction, continued obstinately to oppose the Parliament, and fixed in their resolution to call another ( that is a reformed Parliament more agreeable to their interests ).

According to Spielvogel and Redles Blavatsky labeled some races superior and others inferior.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Carib's superior weapons and seafaring prowess allowed them to defeat most Arawak nations in the West Indies — enslaving some, and cannibalizing others.

According to signaling theory, education does not lead to increased human capital, but rather acts as a mechanism by which workers with superior innate abilities can signal those abilities to prospective employers and so gain above average wages.

" According to Debord, the Situationist International is so named because the construction of situations is the central idea of their theory, a process he describes as " the concrete construction of momentary ambiances of life and their transformation into a superior passional quality.

According to the Prose Edda, these warriors settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology.

According to Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Empress is the inferior ( as opposed to nature's superior ) Garden of Eden, the " Earthly Paradise ".

According to political scientist Trond Nordby, Jagland felt that a cabinet which achieved less than 36. 9 % would not be suited to achieve meaningful results in the face of a superior Parliament.

According to the Second Vatican Council these Eastern Churches, along with the larger Latin Church share " equal dignity, so that none of them is superior to the others as regards rite, and they enjoy the same rights and are under the same obligations, also in respect of preaching the Gospel to the whole world ( cf.

According to the Product Development and Management Association ( PDMA ), superior and differentiated new products — ones that deliver unique benefits and superior value to the customer — is the number one driver of success and product profitability.

According to anecdote, this designation came to stand for " superior quality ", which the spirit distilled as ouzo was thought to possess.

According to Evola, the more recent Northern, White and Indo-European peoples ( despite racial mixing ) implicitly preserved more of the primordial Arctic Hyperborean blood-memory and are objectively spiritually superior to the archaic, matter-obsessed degenerate remnants of the races of the South.

According to Gihwa, the first three chapters are aimed at those of superior capacity, the next seven for those of middling capacity and the final two for those of inferior capacity.

According to George S. Odiorne, the system of management by objectives can be described as a process whereby the superior and subordinate jointly identify its common goals, define each individual's major areas of responsibility in terms of the results expected of him, and use these measures as guides for operating the unit and assessing the contribution of each of its members.

According to legend, Miller and Whitehead named their company " Accolade " because it came before " Activision " alphabetically — implying that Accolade was superior to their previous company.

According to some research, private schools often provide superior results at a fraction of the unit cost of government schools.

According to the constitution, it aimed " to introduce among a somewhat superior class of native females the blessings of Christianity and of religious training ".

According to him, he owes much of his success to his mother, who noticed his superior intellectual capabilities at an early age and helped encourage and motivate him through rigorous academic enrichment.

According to LoveHKFilm, the longer version is the superior cut.

According to the doctrine exposed by Guénon, the " spiritual realisation " leads to the effective identification with the states of being that are superior to our transitory human state, and ultimately to the " Supreme Identity " with the Supreme Principle or Absolute Reality.

According to Garou myth, the Weaver is responsible for three things inescapably associated with the rise of civilization: Dogma ( the superior virtue of one idea over another ), Science ( a process for evaluating empirical knowledge about the universe ), and Technology ( the use of tools of increasing sophistication to enhance the abilities of an individual or group ).

According to a feature article in AACA's magazine The adjective ‘ imperial ’ according to Webster ’ s Dictionary means sovereign, supreme, superior or of unusual size or excellence.

According to Moncreiffe, there is reason to believe that historically this branch were superior to the current chiefs of the Clan Macneil.

According to Jeffress, this calculation relies on delay lines: neurons in the superior olive which accept innervation from each ear with different connecting axon lengths.