I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. The Fine Arts - Seite 301von Gerard Baldwin Brown - 1891 - 321 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1845 - 808 Seiten
...landscape. " Madam," said he to a lady who had denounced some object as ugly — " there is nothing ngly. I never saw an ugly thing in my life ; for let the...light, shade, and perspective will always make it beantiful." This, indeed, was the talisman with which he worked ; liyht and shade — the magic of... | |
| 1845 - 824 Seiten
...regard to beauty in landscape. "Madam," said he to a lady who had denounced some object as ugly — " there is nothing ugly. I never saw an ugly thing in...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." This, indeed, was the talisman with which he worked ; light and shade — the magic of chiaro-scuro... | |
| 1845 - 814 Seiten
...regard to beanty in landscape. "Madam," said he to a lady who had denounced some object as ugly — " there is nothing ugly. I never saw an ugly thing in...light, shade, and perspective will always make it beantiful." This, indeed, was the talisman with which he worked ; liylit and shurle — -the magic... | |
| 1845 - 812 Seiten
...landscape. "Madam," said he to a lady who had denounced some object as ugly — " there is nothing ngly. I never saw an ugly thing in my life ; for let the...light, shade, and perspective will always make it beantiful." This, indeed, was the talisman with which he worked ; light and shade — the magic of... | |
| Charles Robert Leslie - 1845 - 404 Seiten
...engraving of a houfe, called it an ugly thing, he faid, " No madam, there is nothing ugly; / never Jaw an ugly thing in my life : for let the form of an objedt be what it may, — light, made, and perfpedtive will always make it beautiful. It is perfpedtive... | |
| William Bellars - 1876 - 410 Seiten
...nor even possibly, the whole of Nature, but one aspect of her. Constable is said to have remarked, " I never saw an ugly thing in my life; for let the form of a thing be what it may, light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." It is the function... | |
| William Bellars - 1876 - 408 Seiten
...nor even possibly, the whole of Nature, but one aspect of her. Constable is said to have remarked, " I never saw an ugly thing in my life ; for let the form of a thing be what it may, light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." It is the function... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1885 - 772 Seiten
...when, on one occasion, a lady declared to him she found some object in nature ugly, he said, " Madam, there is nothing ugly. I never saw an ugly thing in my life ; for let the form be what it may, light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." " This, indeed was the... | |
| Malcolm James MacLeod - 1915 - 240 Seiten
...lady, in the hearing of Constable, once called an engraving ugly, the great artist replied: "No, madam, there is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life." When, thirty years ago, the ship "Challenger" sank her fathoming line five miles deep into the depths... | |
| John Leonard Callahan - 1927 - 142 Seiten
...become transformed. 'How ugly that house is," said a lady who was looking over engravings with Sir John Constable. 'No, madam,' was the reply, 'there...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful!' "3 Although Constable's words stress the importance of composition overmuch, yet they are significant... | |
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