James Elkins Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  James Elkins

  Music, Fire, Rainbow

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• It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

  James Elkins

  Art, Irrelevance, Modernism

  James Elkins (2011). “What Photography Is”, p.124, Routledge

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• 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.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Color, Two

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• The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

  James Elkins

  Sunset, Dark, Sky

  James Elkins (2007). “How to Use Your Eyes”, p.215, Routledge

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• 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

  Oil, Mixtures, Looks

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.8, Routledge

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• To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

  James Elkins

  Memories, Artist, Breathing

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge

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