 Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful — as the musician...  Self Culture - Seite 3621899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 788 Seiten
...provides the elements of all structures, and the craftsman — be he called engineer or architect — is born to pick and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be useful — and not devoid of grace. The only valid excuse for such departures from the fit and rational... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 810 Seiten
...provides the elements of all structures, and the craftsman- — be he called engineer or architect — is born to pick and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be useful — and not devoid of grace. The only valid excuse for such departures from the fit and rational... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 Seiten
...their might — and Art was relegated to the curiosity shop. : Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is bom to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful —... | |
 | Eric Meade - 1895 - 134 Seiten
...that the artist should apply Nature to his purposes, says, "Nature 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... | |
 | John Miller Gray - 1895 - 188 Seiten
...to nature is well deserving of attention; his theory that ' Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music,' that ' the artist is born to pick and choose, and group with science these elements ; ' that ' in all... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 Seiten
...their might — and Art was relegated to the curiosity shop. Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains...beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 620 Seiten
...he has told us in a pamphlet on the subject : — ' Nature, indeed, contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is horn to pick and choose, and group with science these elements, that the result may be beautiful, as... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1899 - 334 Seiten
...a slight suggestion of subject was wanting. " Nature," he wrote, " contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures, as the keyboard contains...until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony." " Nature," he adds, " sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master ; her son... | |
 | 1899 - 636 Seiten
...As he has told us in a pamphlet on the subject, 'Nature, indeed, contains the elements, in color und form, of all pictures, as the key-board contains the...music. But the artist is born to pick and choose, anil group with science these elements, that the result may be beautiful, as the musician gathers his... | |
 | 1902 - 418 Seiten
...his profession, and combines her beauties and corrects her defects." And Mr. Whistler said: "Nature contains the elements in color and form of all pictures,...as the keyboard contains the notes of all music." Sir Joshua also used a musical illustration when he wrote: "The facility of drawing, like that of playing... | |
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