"including the work of artists who successfully use a painterly style. These artists capture our attention by employing an aesthetically forceful technique that persuades us to look past brush strokes and vagueness and to make our assessments based on only a fraction of the elements that would have been present in nature. As a result, we may feel rewarded by seeing essential elements revealed, or we perhaps regret not having one more details--the way we wish for a second helping when the chef is good but the serving meager.

-Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy-Humans, Nature, and Birds