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

- Stuart Pearson Wright

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

- Stuart Pearson Wright

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

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 …

- Stuart Pearson Wright

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

- Stuart Pearson Wright

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

- Stuart Pearson Wright

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 i…

- Stuart Pearson Wright

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…

- Stuart Pearson Wright

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 …

- Stuart Pearson Wright