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 show the human body as whole and relatively healthy. — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
