Philip Pearlstein Quotes

#1. Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#2. I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.

Carl R. Rogers

#3. When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#5. 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

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

Philip Pearlstein

#7. It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

Plato

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

Philip Pearlstein

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

Philip Pearlstein

#12. 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

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

Philip Pearlstein