The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. Herbert Read More Quotes by Herbert Read More Quotes From Herbert Read 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. Herbert Read luxury space two
