 | 1911 - 856 Seiten
...distract the average painter of things that are. As the wizard of the "Butterfly Mark" has observed: "To say to the -painter that Nature is to be taken...as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit upon the piano." lmpressionists are consummate draughtsmen, as innumerable portrait and figure pieces,... | |
 | 1912 - 880 Seiten
...convenient as it was — beautiful Nature and all that humbug? VII. To say to the painter that Nature may be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. These quotations, taken upon the whole, are very soothing words for any poor devil of an artist to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 Seiten
...illustration. What, for instance, can be happier or more sensible, wittier or more effective, than this ? " To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken 'as...to say to the player that he may sit on the piano." Not of course that this is a discovery of Mr. Whistler's ; for the finest and the fullest evidence... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 Seiten
...musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken...to say to 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... | |
 | 1900 - 640 Seiten
...brush. — HERMANN LEA, in Practical Photographer. NOTES AND NEWS. Look for the joke among the ads. To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as...to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. — Whistler. George flason, we regret to announce, died on the sth of June last. He was the head of... | |
 | Eric Meade - 1895 - 134 Seiten
...contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit upon the piano." Whistler illustrates this by making his pictures poems in colours and calling them... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 Seiten
...musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken...to say to 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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 224 Seiten
...musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken...to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano </r iff That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth... | |
 | Henry Rankin Poore - 1903 - 312 Seiten
...musician gathers his notes and forms his chords until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as...to say to 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... | |
 | Theodore Andrea Cook - 1903 - 290 Seiten
...elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of the piano," but, " to say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as...to say to the player that he may sit on the piano." the strictly professional architect. On the other hand, though natural forms, unmodified and unrestrained,... | |
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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. 
