“What matters in painting is the _necessity_ of self-reference, it’s forbidden nature, and the many strange marks it leaves on the work. In Rembrandt’s self-portrait, his skin is paint, and the paint is his skin. Paint refers to itself, smearing over itself, sliding over itself, caressing itself- its illicit sensuality is constantly apparent , a droning sound under all painting.” – James Elkins in What Painting Is
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