“I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.” LooksMadeSeemsArtistNormalAchievementCriticsObsessedCommentAmbitiousAstonishingPiousTossWry Book:Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings Source: Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
“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
“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.” KnowsLooksOilPainterBrushesMixturesMethodologyPalette Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on.” GivingLooksHas BeensMadeSeemsMovingModernCenturyPaintingComparisonLicenseModernism Author:James Elkins
