A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Art is feminine.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.