Inspiration

"Nothing is less real than realism ... Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we got at the real meaning of things."
[Georgia O'Keeffe, 1922]

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission ... I came here as a man of visions."
[Howard Fisher, 1984]

[As seen in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, National Portrait Gallery Building, December 2008]