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Nelson Shanks Quotes

Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter’s craft... history will determine how successful I have been Picture Quote #1

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn’t want to look that way Picture Quote #1

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don’t develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses Picture Quote #1

Realism has to be such high quality, you can’t fake it. It’s all hanging out there like the laundry Picture Quote #1

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it Picture Quote #1

I try to think and design in color Picture Quote #1

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I’m drawing in my head pretty much Picture Quote #1

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 world of vision Picture Quote #1

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 done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for Picture Quote #1

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. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color Picture Quote #1

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 the past Picture Quote #1

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with Picture Quote #1

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Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint Picture Quote #1

Realism has to be such high quality, you can’t fake it. It’s all hanging out there like the laundry Picture Quote #1

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern Picture Quote #1

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don’t develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses Picture Quote #1

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Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter’s craft... history will determine how successful I have been (Nelson Shanks Quotes) We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn’t want to look that way (Nelson Shanks Quotes) If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don’t develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. (Nelson Shanks Quotes) Realism has to be such high quality, you can’t fake it. It’s all hanging out there like the laundry. (Nelson Shanks Quotes) If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it (Nelson Shanks Quotes) I try to think and design in color (Nelson Shanks Quotes) I’m drawing in my head pretty much (Nelson Shanks Quotes) 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 world of vision (Nelson Shanks Quotes) 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 done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for (Nelson Shanks Quotes) 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. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color (Nelson Shanks Quotes) 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 the past (Nelson Shanks Quotes) Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with (Nelson Shanks Quotes) Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint (Nelson Shanks Quotes) Realism has to be such high quality, you can’t fake it. It’s all hanging out there like the laundry (Nelson Shanks Quotes) A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern (Nelson Shanks Quotes) If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don’t develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses (Nelson Shanks Quotes)