Major Influence

"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 level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."
- David Hockney

wring your clothes

"His personality so crowds the room that the walls are worn thin and threaten to burst outwards."
- On Theodore Roosevelt 

when it becomes something else

Venetian Canal, 1913

"The smartest painter follows his brush."
- Artist George Gallo [born 1956] quoting John Singer Sargent [1856-1925]