 Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who should say, not at a picture, but through it, at some human fact, that...  Memoir and Remains - Seite 51von John Miller Gray - 1895Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 Seiten
...action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
 | 1891 - 806 Seiten
...of the work that portrays it ; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who would say, not at a picture, but through it, at some human...shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, betjer their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 Seiten
...action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it ; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1903 - 272 Seiten
...confounded with virtue, and before a work of art, it is asked' What good shall it do? . . . And thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...not, from a social point of view, better their mental and moral state." The " unattached writer " is the object of his special contempt, for he considers... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1904 - 370 Seiten
...action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
 | Hans Wolfgang Singer - 1905 - 138 Seiten
...action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it ; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
 | Sadakichi Hartmann - 1910 - 404 Seiten
...of action in his life is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall, not from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 480 Seiten
...action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 Seiten
...action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it ; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
 | Thomas R. Martland - 1981 - 240 Seiten
...the scene, memory, or incident they illustrate. They appeal, as Whistler once put it, to a people who have acquired the habit of looking, as who should...point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates, and of the duty of the painter — of the picture... | |
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