HARVEY SCHMIDT

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“As far as we’re concerned, Harvey Schmidt’s musical success is a sideline.
To us, he is a painter.” — LIFE Magazine, March 14 1969

 
 
 
 

"Series paintings have always been the kind of thing I like to do the most."

"My goal is for the finished picture to stand alone as an individual painting but at the same time to complement the other paintings in the group. That type of reporting, with paintings on a single subject, has always been the kind of thing I like to do the most. It has much more appeal to me than doing isolated easel paintings."

"I also like the challenge of covering a subject that I myself did not select. There is no subject too big or too little, I believe, to be covered in this way."

— Harvey Schmidt, as quoted on Today’s Inspiration by Leif Peng