“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.” GivingMayTwoThreeSpaceObjectsPaintingIllusionConcernStrivePainterLuxuryPlanesPeculiarQuantitySculptureSculptors Author:Herbert Read
“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.” MeanEndsSidesEffectsPaintingPaperConsciousEmbraceMerePaintStriveTechniqueExpressiveMeans To An EndMannerisms Author:Walter J. Phillips
“I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.” LastsNextPaintingExcitingExcellenceStriveThe Next OneExciting Things Author:Robert Lyn Nelson
“As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.” PeopleLooksStillsRealUsedFeltImaginationBoysPaintingMastersEmpathyPaintStriveEnjoymentPortraitsMy ImaginationCapturedReproduction Author:David Cobley
“Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.” EnoughSimpleStudyEffectsPaintingStriveSimplicityComplexity Author:Chai Lu