“Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.” IfsWellsMayArtSpiritualArtistQualityPaintingArt IsDepthInsightDrunkGuarantees Author:Millard Sheets
“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.” WantArtTwoFeelingsProblemWealthBalanceArt IsOppositesDepthRealismSymbolismTwo Opposites Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.” WorldArtReasonProblemTodayTermNumbersCenturyStudentsArt IsTraditionCriticismDepthAncientIgnorantPrimariesProfessorsWorld HistoryTheoreticalExpertiseDistortionNineteenth CenturyAcademiaSophisticationBreadthInterconnectedDullnessIneptitude Author:Camille Paglia
“A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.” PersonsArtStatesBeliefProcessInterestNaturalOpinionCreationPureNormalHappeningsArt IsDirectDepthArtisticWorks Of ArtProjectionArtistic Creation Author:Jean Dubuffet
“The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.” ArtEnoughSpiritualityArt IsConsequenceInfiniteFoundationFaultsDepthWorks Of ArtGreat WorkAestheticsBanality Book:Asger Jorn Source: Asger Jorn
“Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.” WorldMayArtSoulHelpingEyeSpiritArtistProcessArt IsWindowInfiniteDepthOpeningHeightTransformedGoddessSublimeVulgarPortal Author:Ken Wilber