Age Quote by Nelson Shanks

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

— Nelson Shanks

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

I try to think and design in color.

— Nelson Shanks

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

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

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

— Nelson Shanks

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

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

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

— Nelson Shanks

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.

— Nelson Shanks

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

— Nelson Shanks

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