Philip Pearlstein quotes

Philip Pearlstein quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Passion Quotes #Done Quotes
“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.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Reading Quotes
“Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Looks Quotes #Subtle Quotes #Observation Quotes
“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

#Opportunity Quotes #Artist Quotes #Body Quotes
“It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Meaningful Quotes #Art Quotes #Differences Quotes
“I get my highs from using my eyes.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Eye Quotes #Joy Quotes
“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.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Humanity Quotes #Progress Quotes #Want Quotes
“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.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Expression Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Trying Quotes
“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.”
-- Philip Pearlstein

#Wall Quotes #Trying Quotes #Movement Quotes
“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

#Honesty Quotes #Space Quotes #Editing Quotes

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