Art Quotes by James Elkins

James Elkins

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

Art

Irrelevance

Modernism

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.

Art

Color

Hands

James Elkins

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.

Art

Criticism

Long

James Elkins

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, ‘What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?’ These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.

Art

Important

Thinking

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Achievement

Ambitious

Art

Artist

Atmosphere

Beautiful

Blood

Breathing

Brilliant

Color

Criticism

Dark

Discovery

Doe

Emotional

Eye

Feet

Finishing

Fire

Firsts

Gestures

Giving

Glances

Glimpse

Hands

Hurt

Important

Inarticulate

Irrelevance

Leaving

Littles

Long

Looks

Matter

Mechanism

Memories

Metamorphosis

Mirrors

Mixtures

Modernism

Mood

Moon

Morning

Movement

Moving

Music

Numbers

Oil

Opposites

Painting

Play

Portraits

Practice

Projection

Rainbow

Records

Seeing

Seers

Simple

Sky

Stories

Substance

Sunset

Thinking

Trying

Two

Want

Years

Art Quotes by James Elkins

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

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.

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.

What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, ‘What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?’ These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.

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Herbert Spencer

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Bill Tilden

Ricky Gervais

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