 That nature is always right is an assertion, artistically, as untrue as it is one whose truth is universally taken for granted. Nature is very rarely right — to such an extent, even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong; that is...  Brush and Pencil - Seite 2751902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 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,...harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all. This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine almost blasphemous. So incorporated with... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 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,...harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine almost blasphemous. So incorporated with... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 360 Seiten
...painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano if if That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically,...harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all. ********** The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, all... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1903 - 362 Seiten
...been surprised, and might well have replied, " Then, the birds are doing better." Concerning nature, Whistler said : "That nature is always right is an...harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all. ' ' This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine almost blasphemous. So incorporated with... | |
 | Henry Rankin Poore - 1903 - 312 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,...worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all." Between the life class, with its model standing in academic pose and the pictured scene in which the... | |
 | Henry Rankin Poore - 1903 - 312 Seiten
...the player that he may sit on the piano. That Nature is always right is an assertion artistically^-as untrue as it is one whose truth is universally taken...worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all." Between the life class, with its model standing in academic pose and the pictured scene in which the... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1903 - 272 Seiten
...the generally accepted view that " Nature is always right " ; asserting, on the other hand, that she is usually wrong, "that is to say, the condition of...worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all." " Nature," he says, " contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains... | |
 | 1903 - 828 Seiten
...and Velasquez. Madam, why drag in Velasquez?" "Nature," he wrote once, " is usually wrong that is, the condition of things that shall bring about the...worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all." It was that belief which inspired him, when some one observed that a splendid sunset reminded him of... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1904 - 370 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,...harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all. This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine almost blasphemous. So incorporated with... | |
 | 1906 - 950 Seiten
...he may sit on the piano. That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, at it is one whose truth is universally taken for granted....things that shall bring about the perfection of harmony worth a picture is rare, and not common at all. This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine... | |
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