"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."

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Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

James Elkins

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