Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with. — 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
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
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