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.


Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (ed. Routledge, 2005) - ISBN: 9781135950132

James Elkins Quotes

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make...

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make...

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make...

If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make...