“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.” ThinkingKnowsUseAgeUsedArtistHouseMaterialsComputerPaintIncrediblesOilCommandRangeHouseholdItemsComputer SystemsPollock Author:Bill Viola
“I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. [I'd rather they be] horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.” ThinkingWantMovingArtistNextMiddleWorstReactionsRangeMediocrePissed OffDisgusted Author:Alex Prager
“The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.” MenArtistSpeakGrowsSecretWonderFatePerformancesDeeperMortalsRangeIsolationAssuranceConsideratePenetration Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.” ArtistAnswersFieldsJudgmentCriticismRangeSpecialists Author:Anton Chekhov
“In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.” ShowsArtistTalentPersonalityLimitationRangeRevealingVagueness Author:Eugene Delacroix
“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.” IfsGivingHumansDoeImportantSoulReasonFeelingsRealityArtistPassionTermMoralBoysGreatnessBalanceIntegrityVicesCreatorIntellectMythRangeAccustomedSpecialistsScoundrelsMagnanimityBoy ScoutMoral Integrity Author:Jacques Barzun
“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.” KnowsLightArtistValuesDarkFocusEffectsColorRangeColourBright Colors Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows and by mail order as an independent artist. The greatest stores that have character and include a much wider range of music of music are all independent, mom and pop stores.” IfsCharacterFactsShowsArtistOrderRecordsMomIndependentPopsStoresCriminalsRangeMailCdsRecord Stores Author:Shawn Mullins