Philip Pearlstein Inspirational Quotes (4)

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

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.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.