Quotes from Philip Pearlstein

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.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

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.

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

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.