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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: 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: 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

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: Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

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

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

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: 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.