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Stuart Pearson Wright Quotes:

Stuart Pearson Wright quotes

Ocupation: Artist

Life: b. 1975

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I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

Topics: Opportunity, Self, Missing, Driving Force, Publicists

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Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Topics: Art, Thrive

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Topics: Writing, Love Is, Space

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

Topics: Frustrating

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

Topics: Machines, Kind, Paint

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

Topics: Opportunity, Thinking, Phones, Good Opportunity

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

Topics: Important, Stage, Idealism

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

Topics: Reality, Expectations, Trying

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

Topics: Interesting, World, Littles

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

Topics: Art, Business, Teaching, Art School

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

Topics: Pay, Painting, Figures, Predetermined

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