Who is your all time favorite artist?

[JohnEmmett]

none of the above, only me

Somehow I knew this would be your response.

Enya doesn't listen to other musicians


in order to keep herself original

 

[Artyczar]

Or keep herself cut off from expanding her horizons?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Or keep herself cut off from expanding her horizons?

if you do the same thing as everyone else…

then you can only be equal

 

[Artyczar]

If you to the same thing as everyone else, then you're not expending your horizons right.

 

[JohnEmmett]

If you do the same thing as everyone else, then you're not expanding your horizons right.

well… Enya is different

 

[JohnEmmett]

 

[john]

If a blind man suddenly gained sight, what would he paint?

If a deaf woman suddenly could hear, what would she sing?

Give me my poor cherished senses so that I might know.

Irving Wiles - Sonata - 1889

 

[Artyczar]

To each their own.

 

[stlukesguild]

Enya doesn't listen to other musicians

That's what she says. It's not like artists have never been known to exaggerate or lie about their work.

No matter what she says, she didn't invent the whole of music on her own.

 

[Katie]

I was going to say Monet, but really I think the artist that really excites me more than any other is probably Vermeer.

 

[Desforges]

I haves to many to have a very favorite but
I think that the Canadian painter Emily Carr has influenced me a bit. Perhaps because I love the West Coast and indigenous art. I also loved that she was alone a lot.

 

[musket]

A Vermeer is like a faceted stone, draining all the light out of a room and then throwing it back at the viewer. These works, most of them very small, can still dominate a room filled with larger paintings. There are so many theories about how he did it, about what separates him from the many other excellent painters of his time and place. Why are his colors so vivid? Aside from his lavish use of genuine ultramarine, he didn't have anything out of the ordinary on his palette. Hockney can go on as long as he likes about Vermeer's use of optical devices, but at best those could only have been used for the preliminaries, and in some cases their use would have been next to impossible. Light doesn't hold still. The truth is that his methods are well understood, and still, nobody knows. He could do it because he was Vermeer.

I'm also fond of Sargent.