Top 8 Philip Pearlstein Quotes

#1. 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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#2. It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

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#3. I get my highs from using my eyes.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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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#6. Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

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