Quotes by Nelson Shanks

Nelson Shanks

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Art

Language

Pitfalls

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.

Light

Successful

Unique

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.

Color

Real

Years

I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.

Musical

Order

Thinking

I try to think and design in color.

Color

Design

Thinking

I’m drawing in my head pretty much.

Drawing

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.

Cutting

Eight

Hate

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

Color

Knows

Paint

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

Finding Yourself

Technique

Weakness

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.

Museums

Past

Thinking

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Age

Art

Artist

Bills

Boredom

Careers

Color

Cutting

Design

Drawing

Eight

Exercise

Fake

Finding Yourself

Form

Games

Hate

Knows

Language

Laundry

Light

Men

Museums

Musical

Night

Numbers

Oil

Order

Paint

Painting

Past

People

Photography

Pitfalls

Play

Portraits

Presidential

Quality

Real

Reality

Successful

Teacher

Technique

Thinking

Trying

Unique

Vocabulary

Weakness

Years

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Quotes by Nelson Shanks

Nelson Shanks

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

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.

I try to think and design in color.

I’m drawing in my head pretty much.

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.

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

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

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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