"A portrait, to be a work of Art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter . . . To depict a figure one must not paint the figure; one must paint it's atmosphere."
~~ Umberto Boccioni ~~
Jimena and Rosario Rivera
Elizabeth Freund
Jose
Marin
Michelle
"Imagine someone pointing to a spot in the iris in a face by Rembrandt and saying 'the wall in my room should be painted this color.'"
~~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~~
Rick
Gentile
Jean Louise Engel
Liz
and Chelsea Lee
Mary
Gray Griffith
Taft Ketchum
Cherokee
Stock
"Painting is founded on the heart, controlled by the head."
~~ Paul Cezanne ~~
Preston Ketchum
old
woman
Jacklyn
Chuck Williams
Lindsay Kerchner
Griselle y Jorge
"Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop."
~~ Charles Hawthorne ~~
Jamie, Niki and Dido Thayer
"young girl" Speak
Vivianne
Malikai Smith
Carol Romano
Dasan Pillai
"An artist should paint as if in the presence of God."
~~ Michelangelo Buonarroti ~~
Barbara Sykes Wright
Elwood Cake
Ruth Maislen
Alison Quackenbush
Joan Columbus, Self-Portrait
Patricia Pynchon
"Painting isn't so difficult if you don't know . . . but when you do . . . it is quite a different matter!"
~~ Edgar Degas ~~