Thursday, July 27, 2006

Painting as alchemy

"To a non-painter, oil paint is uninteresting and fairly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that makes it worthwile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime. As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thickness in oil."

What Painting Is - by James Elkins

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