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Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

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James Elkins

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.

Artist, Emotional, Important, Artists, Worth
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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.

Artist, Color, Paint, Painting, Unspoken

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.

Hurt, Littles, Seen, Sting, Subject, Thinking

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.

Art, Criticism, Logical, Long, Perhaps, Reformed

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.

Artist, Existences, Linked, Practice, Theorist, Want

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Mechanism, Metamorphosis, Seeing
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