I don’t do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
I’m a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don’t do commissions unless I really want to, because it’s like having a job. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
These guys are just flying through the air and I’m capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
I was tired of illustration. You’d work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you’d turn the page and it was gone. Richard MacDonald Read Quote
I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn’t think I’d make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, ‘Wear it like your underwear.’ Richard MacDonald Read Quote