“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
“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
“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
“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.” MadeBodyRecordsFrontsMovementPaintingPaintCastsPainterSatDelicateGesturesCanvasPortraitsTense Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
