“A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.” IfsMomentsEarthFeltDarkSunSawsFeetShadowCastsEastAtmosphereIf I CouldSun Set Author:James Elkins
“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.” IfsImportantSeemsArtistCenturyEmotionalPaintingImportanceContact Author:James Elkins
“It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.” IfsArtModernismIrrelevance Book:What Photography Is Source: What Photography Is
“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.” IfsRememberMusicFireObjectsRedGoldFilledPainterColourConcertsRainbowOrchestraViolin Author:James Elkins
