Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work.… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
![“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor…” quote by Nelson Shanks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/589/nelson-shanks-28304_aesthetics_we-got-interested-in-aesthetics-and-then_2450241.jpg)
![“We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.” quote by Nelson Shanks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e39/nelson-shanks-28304_age_we-joked-a-little-about-presidential-por_2157990.jpg)