(Designers: Custom framing is available for this item) Quotes in the Painting If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. Only the gentle are ever really strong. The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. Racing is the only time I feel whole. Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, 'Wait. Let me see.' And above all, you must be honest with yourself. Christina Major was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1982. She has lived all over the world including Hawaii, France, New York and more currently Florida. Christina has achieved her MFA at Florida Atlantic University and has exhibited throughout South Florida. Her work has been collected both nationally and internationally. Christina Major is a portrait painter interested in the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a painting. Major's graduate thesis exhibition, Components of self, evolved from her desire to combine large scale portrait painting with writing. She developed methods of using paint to express a merging of herself with the individual painted in the portrait, resulting in a hybrid of herself and the person depicted. less