In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a… — James Elkins Art Copy Share Image
Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million… — James Elkins Brighter Copy Share Image
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils… — James Elkins Art Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of… — James Elkins Decades Copy Share Image
The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse,… — James Elkins Glances Copy Share Image
All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every… — James Elkins Freezing Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Brushes Copy Share Image
