"Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to..."

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Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.187, Routledge

James Elkins

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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”
“Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.”
“Look up there! That's the sky!”
“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.”
“Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.”
“You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.”
“It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.”

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“I think the four land artists I showed all worked within a few years of each other. And they were standard bearers, I suppose, for land art. They each did very separate things. Apparently, later in California, a lot of artists started working in that medium and there was something of a rush of earthworks. But I wasn't involved with that.”

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