Philip Pearlstein quotes
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“Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.”
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“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.”
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“Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.”
-- Philip Pearlstein -
“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”
-- Philip Pearlstein -
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“It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.”
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“There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.”
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“I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.”
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“I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.”
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“I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.”
-- Philip Pearlstein
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