As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.
People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life. - David Cobley
People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.
- David Cobley
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the … - David Cobley
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the …
As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empath… - David Cobley
As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empath…
All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it. - David Cobley
All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dang… - David Cobley
Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dang…
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