Gustav Klimt

“Klimt has always been a huge inspiration to me. Although my artwork is not reflective of his style, in my early art classes, I recreated his “Portrait of Adele Blochbauer” with my face in lieu of the real figure’s.”

“Gustav had a 27 year long situationship with Emilie Flöge but cheated on her with numerous models and fathered many children with them. Emilie remained a loyal companion of his through it all. This game is nothing new. He didn't know how to treat women, but at least he could paint them.”

“Love the art, not the artist. Despite being a known womanizer, Klimt has a particular way of painting his subjects that is striking from both an artistic standpoint and a design standpoint. I read in a book once that he treats his portraits like landscapes and his landscapes like portraits and I feel that's such an interesting sentiment”