“I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?” MenMeanDoeHe ManPaintingSolutionsMachinesMethodDepthScreensArticlesSilkCopyingAudacious Author:Andy Warhol
“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
“In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.” WayLittlesMadeWantedSpacePaintingDepthActiveOpeningMade ItPlanesShallowInteriorsSpectatorsSpace BetweenOpening UpInterior Space Book:The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009
“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
“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.” EndsStoriesThreeProcessPerfectPaintingBuiltDepthUnconsciousPathwaysDreamworks Author:Billy Cannon
“Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.” GivingRealLightFilmFormLinesQualityParticularColorPaintingMaterialsPerspectiveReflectionPaintDepthHeightCharacteristicsPhenomenonEquationsConvincingReflectingAbsorbingBreadthTransmissionAbsorptionSumptuous Author:Jo Baer
“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.” MindMadeIdeasCreationPaintingCommunicationDiscoveryToolsDepthPulling Author:Jim Rowe
“You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.” KnowsWayYearsKindNextLeftPaintingDatingDepthNotionRadioFinishedPassagesCarbonAbyssUnfinishedThe Next OnePassage Of TimeUnfathomableBlown AwayCharcoal Author:Werner Herzog
“To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.” IfsGivingLooksArtArtistPaintingIllusionDepthMediumsCinema Author:William Friedkin