Stuart Pearson Wright famous quotes

05-17-2025

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.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Opportunity #Self #Missing
Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#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.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Writing #Love Is #Space
It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Frustrating
I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#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.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Opportunity #Thinking #Phones
It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#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.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#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.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#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.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Art #Business #Teaching
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.
-- Stuart Pearson Wright

#Pay #Painting #Figures

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