a bit of nothing

"For me, and perhaps only for me, these bits of peripheral vision are little heroic moments, small monuments to modernity – if modernity can still, in part, be defined in that great phrase of Baudelaire’s as “the ephemeral, the fugitive and the contingent”."

David Batchelor on monochromes.
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue16/colourchart2.htm

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"You do not have to paint every blade of grass to get someone to understand that they are looking at grass - you paint the situation of grass. It lights differently, and shadows fall differently. That is what Holbein has managed to do here."

Chuck Close on Hans Holbein
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue8/messagesfromamaster.htm