“The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.” LooksLightSunSkyMinutesColorTwentiesSpotsSunsetIsolatedFifteenPurple Author:James Elkins
“Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.” GivingMadeTwoDifferentTogetherArtistGoalWaterColorPaintingMaterialsStonesUltimateIngredientsEndeavorFluidAlchemyUltimate GoalPigment Author:James Elkins
“Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.” GivingArtHandsFacesTreeMovementColorPaintingFineShadowPaintLovelyPainterTextureFine ArtsFixingReactingUnnoticedLovely ThingsAntenna Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.” ArtistSpeakColorPaintingMassPaintMoodDialogueUnspoken Author:James Elkins
