A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east. . … - James Elkins

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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

James Elkins

A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east. . . It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself. . . I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.

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Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

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All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every glance hurts in some way, freezing and condensing what's seen into something that it is not.

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Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields.

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In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be.

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Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

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