The Hunter Has Two Faces

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) - Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845


'When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.'

George Bernard Shaw

The Genius Of Infirmity

Max Klinger (1857-1920) - Plague, 1898


'I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.'

George Bernard Shaw

Signatures Of The Soul

Jenny Saville (b. 1970) - Reverse, 2003


"The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent."

Marcel Proust

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Oscar Wilde

"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul."

George Bernard Shaw

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

Pablo Picasso

"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."

Rainer Maria Rilke