“Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.” WorldWayFirstsRealBigsArtistPossibilityInternetRight NowDepthSpreadSubstanceYoutube Author:Amy Ray
“Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?” MindTogetherArtistEnergyLinesEffectsColorPaintingDepthDetailsSurfaceArisePlanesIntensitySerenityVolumeCompositionSpectatorsCalmnessReposeBeing Together Author:Eli Siegel
“Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.” SoulCharacterArtistResultsKnowingCreatingDrawsDepthPhotographVisibleMaskCopiesPortraitsPortraiture Author:Igor Babailov
“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
“Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.” FirstsAbleArtistLinesDepthVolumeIllustrators Author:Billy Cannon
“I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.” KnowsArtistSacrificeSadnessLonelinessDepthGreat ArtGreat Artist Author:Cornel West
“Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.” HumansHappensArtistHumanityRaceAudienceParticularDepthGenderBreadth Author:Cheryl Strayed
“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.” ArtArtistHighestBlindInstinctStriveDepthFollowingAppearanceArtisticLowestStrife Book:Goethe on Art Source: Goethe on Art
“The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.” ArtLawArtistSufferingTurnsDoorsSorrowCapacityDepthDenyGreat ArtGreat ArtistReception Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.” PeopleKnowsArtistFansDepth Author:Garth Brooks