If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds …

- Paul Strisik

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

- Paul Strisik

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

- Paul Strisik

If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either.

- Paul Strisik

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they alread…

- Paul Strisik