Art Quote by Philip Pearlstein

Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that…

— Alex Katz

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

— Steve Jobs

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

— Gustave Courbet

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter…

— Sol LeWitt

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension…

— Wayne Thiebaud

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that…

— Agnes Martin

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that…

— Jacob Hashimoto

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of…

— Arthur Wesley Dow

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

— Philip Pearlstein

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice…

— Ben Shahn

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

— Clive Bell