Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

- Alexander Eliot

This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round b…

- Alexander Eliot

I have but one life to give to adventure.

- Alexander Eliot

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving ed…

- Alexander Eliot

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

- Alexander Eliot

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

- Alexander Eliot

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

- Alexander Eliot