Able Quote by William Rothenstein

All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one…

— Ernst Gombrich

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher…

— David Hockney

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and…

— Eugene Delacroix

“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation”

— Anonymous

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

— Kehinde Wiley

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still”

— Lian Hearn

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression!…

— William Morris Hunt

“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in…

— Susan Vreeland