"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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Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.3, Routledge

James Elkins

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“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”

Source : "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
“The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night.”
“Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.”
“Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.”
“No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.”
“Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.”
“I have reached the summit of my ambition.”
“I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.”

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