That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth is universally taken for granted. A Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that Nature is usually wrong... Brush and Pencil - Seite 2751902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alfred Stieglitz - 1903 - 616 Seiten
...painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. €J That Nature is always right is an assertion, artistically,...universally taken for granted. Nature is very rarely THINGS WE HAVE LOOKED INTO. €J THE BAUSCH & LOME Quarter-century Competition, out of which Duty well... | |
| 1904 - 620 Seiten
...painter that nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. " " That nature is always right is an assertion, artistically,...one whose truth is universally taken for granted." "The dignity of the snow-capped mountain is lost in distinctness, but the joy of the tourist is to... | |
| 1906 - 642 Seiten
...pitfall to the maker of pictures by photography is the supposition that pictorially nature is all right. That "nature is always right" is an assertion artistically...truth is universally taken for granted. Nature is so rarely right that it almost might be said that nature is usually wrong; that is to say, the condition... | |
| E. B. Greenshields, John Ruskin - 1906 - 352 Seiten
...painter that nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. That nature is always right is an assertion artistically...one whose truth is universally taken for granted. It might almost be said that nature is usually wrong, that is to say, the condition of things that... | |
| Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1906 - 98 Seiten
...gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. . . . " That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically,...one whose truth is universally taken for granted. . . . This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine almost blasphemous. So incorporated... | |
| E. B. Greenshields - 1906 - 354 Seiten
...painter that nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. That nature is always right is an assertion artistically...one whose truth is universally taken for granted. It might almost be said that nature is usually wrong, that is to say, the condition of things that... | |
| Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell - 1908 - 504 Seiten
...picks and chooses and groups the elements contained in Nature, that beauty may be the result. For " Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even,...might almost be said that Nature is usually wrong." He has been so frequently misunderstood that it may be well to emphasise the meaning of these two assertions... | |
| Henry Rankin Poore - 1913 - 286 Seiten
...is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may expect music by sitting on the piano. That Nature is always right is an assertion artistically...one whose truth is universally taken for granted." Art is hedged in by conventions. In sculpture she has to do with pedestals, in painting, with frames.... | |
| John Charles Van Dyke - 1919 - 416 Seiten
...written. His own limitations and necessities could not have been better set forth than by the sentence: "Nature is very rarely right; to such an extent even,...might almost be said that nature is usually wrong." He wanted to put a conventionalized nature into a decorative pattern, and he justified it by saying... | |
| George Moore - 1923 - 510 Seiten
...He it is who calls her — he who holds her ! But, Balderston, there is another that you must hear: That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth is unversally taken for granted. Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost... | |
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