Speaking of his portraits:
"the only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else......in a picture I want to say something comforting as music is comforting. I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to communicate by the actual radiance and vibration of our colouring."
"the only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else......in a picture I want to say something comforting as music is comforting. I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to communicate by the actual radiance and vibration of our colouring."
