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

Nelson Shanks

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Nelson Shanks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 23
Died: 2015
Died: August 28
Painter
Rochester
New York
John Nelson Shanks
Paint
Color

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.
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My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.
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I try to think and design in color.
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If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.
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I'm drawing in my head pretty much.
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So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.
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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.
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