+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++ "I was recently talking to a friend who had relocated near San Francisco and who had never before been to that city. I was trying to summarize my various feelings about one of my favorite cities and found words completely inadequate to explain the sensations that grip me when I'm in San Francisco. Perhaps that's why I'm an artist. The lights, the mood, the flying flags and windswept wisps of fog, the bustling people and quaint bits of architecture that are San Francisco can perhaps best be captured on canvas. Yet even this is inadequate, for a purely visual image cannot relate the ambient sounds and smells that are so much a part of the City by the Bay. For example, if you were standing at the location I painted, your ears would probably be filled with the sounds of clanging cable car bells, the whistle of hotel bellmen flagging taxis, and perhaps the lonely call of seagulls overhead. Likewise, if you took a deep breath you might notice the aroma of fried rice rising from Chinatown below, or perhaps the pungent smell of sourdough bread that seems at times to be omnipresent in San Francisco." ~~Thomas Kinkade