Stuart Pearson Wright Quotes

• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Art, Thrive

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• I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Writing, Love Is, Space

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• It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

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  Frustrating

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• I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Machines, Kind, Paint

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• Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Thinking, Phones

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• It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Important, Stage, Idealism

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• One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Reality, Expectations, Trying

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• I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

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  Interesting, Benefits, World

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• One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Art, Business, Teaching

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• A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Pay, Painting, Figures

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