"Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the license to look at them quickly - to consume them and move on."

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Source : "Are Artists Bored by Their Work?" by James Elkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.

James Elkins

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“He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.”
“In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.”
“I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.”
“I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.”

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“I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.”
“My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.”
“If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.”
“Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.”

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