If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great 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
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
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
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. — Nelson Shanks Copy Share
