Quote from 'What Painting Is' by James Elkins, published by Routlage:
Imagination is fluid, or wants to be, and the very act of painting is an act of violence against the liquidity of our thoughts. A painting is frozen, and its permanence is very much unlike our evanescent ideas. This is one of paintings powers, since the stillness of painting can set the mind free in a remarkable way - paintings give us license to reflect in ways that volatile arts, such as movies and plays cannot. A film bombards the senses with new configurations, while a painting remains still, waiting for us to dream the changes it might possess.
