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.
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. - Philip Pearlstein
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
- Philip Pearlstein
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible. - Philip Pearlstein
Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.
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
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.
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 wa… - Philip Pearlstein
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 wa…
I get my highs from using my eyes. - Philip Pearlstein
I get my highs from using my eyes.
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
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.
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 re… - Philip Pearlstein
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 re…
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small. - Philip Pearlstein
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.
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 sh… - Philip Pearlstein
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 sh…
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