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James Elkins Quotes

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism Picture Quote #1

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer’s inarticulate moods Picture Quote #1

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields Picture Quote #1

It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist’s numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body Picture Quote #1

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer Picture Quote #1

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art Picture Quote #1

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Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to Picture Quote #1

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette Picture Quote #1

As the decades go by, a painter’s life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete Picture Quote #1

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second Picture Quote #1

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods Picture Quote #1

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter’s movements, a portrait of the painter’s body and thoughts Picture Quote #1

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In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be Picture Quote #1

All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what’s seen into something that it is not Picture Quote #1

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Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism (James Elkins Quotes) Every meaning is a projection of the viewer’s inarticulate moods (James Elkins Quotes) Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields (James Elkins Quotes) It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist’s numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body (James Elkins Quotes) Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer (James Elkins Quotes) It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art (James Elkins Quotes) Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to (James Elkins Quotes) A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette (James Elkins Quotes) As the decades go by, a painter’s life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete (James Elkins Quotes) The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second (James Elkins Quotes) Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods (James Elkins Quotes) Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter’s movements, a portrait of the painter’s body and thoughts (James Elkins Quotes) In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be (James Elkins Quotes) All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what’s seen into something that it is not (James Elkins Quotes)