Sara Larkin - Quotes About Sara Larkin

Quotes About Sara Larkin

• "Sara is an outgoing and well traveled individual with knowledge of the fine arts, notably in Oriental art. In addition, she is an accomplished painter and scholar. While she does an occasional portrait, her specialty is interpretations of "space"...that is, pictures dealing with the adventure of NASA" - S. Raymond Kinstler
• "The success of these works is due both to their laconic conception and to the painstaking techniques with which they were executed. At a time when most artists toying with the theme of space confine themselves to a new technological romanticism, Ms. Larkin experimented successfully in a kind of hyper-realism." -S. Frederick Starr
• "In addition to her sound training in Western art, both in theory and in practice, she has a special aptitude in Chinese painting appreciation and its philosophy." - Laurence C.S. Tam (Past Director, Hong Kong Museum of Art)
• "When I first saw your paintings, I was struck by their Zen quality, the impeccable clarity of all the facts and phenomena that also inspire me to itch, pry and probe the details of our tenure on Earth." - Joseph S. Lewis (Fashion MODA Gallery)
• "Sara Larkin is an important artist. I believe there is no possibility for a perspective on our times unless the are interpreted creatively by the artists among us. I believe she has completed a considerable body of work on the creative interpretation of our endeavors in space, what it can mean for us to look upon ourselves at such distances. Now, she has turned to the personal dimensions of the devastation wrought upon others by those who seek power. In this latest of her works, as always, the human spirit finds its won capacity to blossom." - J.H. Beal, Astrophysicist (St. Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland)
• "This retrospective show by Sara Larkin is an unusual exhibition which demonstrates a multiplicity of talent and a range of aesthetic and artistic elements which takes in the entire sphere of ones spirit. She proceeds form the global perspective of her spacescapes to intimate human expressions of her expressionist work and of her ladies. Sara taps an intense emotional visual. Her Ladies evoke an intimate expression of strength in solitude contrasting the inner world with the outer world." - Will Barnet
• "Her largest collector describes Sara as - ‘Ahead of the learning curve’." - Tom Clancy
• "As an astronaut, pilot Gemini VI, Commander of Gemini IX, Apollo X, and Apollo-Soyuz, I can speak with authority as to the contribution I feel Sara Larkin has made with these paintings which portrays mans’ first exploration of space. With these images, she has added to the visual history of world civilization and to culture in its broadest sense. The artist has capture in her painting such as "Earth Rising" based on a photo I took on my Apollo X Mission, the wonder of one of the first times Earth was viewed as an entity from the moon. Earth seen from this perspective, changed forever the consciousness of mankind. Only a contemporary artist could or ever will be able to capture the sensibilities of the time, the day the world stopped to watch a man step on the moon and the dawn of global thinking in a very real sense. I am proud to have been a part of completing that history." - General Thomas P. Stafford