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

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

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 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 get my highs from using my eyes.

- 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.

- Philip Pearlstein

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 referenc…

- 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…

- Philip Pearlstein