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James Elkins Quotes: "To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing."

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.



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."

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: "Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism."

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.



James Elkins Quotes: "Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer"

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer




James Elkins Quotes: "Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand."

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.



James Elkins Quotes: "To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place."

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.



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."

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: "Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to."

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: "It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art."

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.



James Elkins Quotes: "The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures."

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.



James Elkins Quotes: "The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries."

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.



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."

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: "Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods."

Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.