 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
 | Veritas (pseud.) - 1924 - 140 Seiten
...rarely right; to such an extent, even, that it might almost be said Nature is usually wrong. . . . But the artist is born to pick and choose, and group with science, these elements [of nature], that the result may be beautiful." Rodin frequently picked and chose the ugly only because... | |
 | Adrian Stokes, Adrian Scott Stokes - 1925 - 324 Seiten
...the lecture, which every student should read, Whistler says: "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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 Seiten
...JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER 1834-1903 483 ^(ature and <iArt 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... | |
 | 1927 - 666 Seiten
...be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. — Letter to JOSHUA SPEED in 1855 t Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...these elements, that the result may be beautiful. — JAMES ABBOTT McNEiLL WHISTLER THE OWL AND THE BLUE JAY 'TpHis new group just mounted at the -I-... | |
 | Henry Ladd - 1928 - 112 Seiten
...own statement is disappointing for it avoids the essential issue. He says in the Ten O'clock Lecture, "But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group...these elements, that the result may be beautiful," and this, in the light of eighteenth century criticism, to say nothing of Ruskin's complex speculation... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 394 Seiten
...and Manchester arose in their might, and Art was relegated to the curiosity-shop. ********** * Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. *********** The artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science these elements, that the... | |
 | Rilla Evelyn Jackman - 1928 - 864 Seiten
...the exact reproduction of the model, or in the idea that nature is always beautiful. He said: "Nature contains the elements in color and form of all pictures...beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes and forms his chords until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony." From these quotations one comes to understand... | |
 | 1906 - 826 Seiten
...following nature — the same idea that Three Thieves. 123 the Japanese has so strongly. "Nature," he says, "contains the elements in color and form of all pictures,...beautiful, as the musician gathers his notes and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmonies. To say to the artist that nature is... | |
 | 1926 - 628 Seiten
...keyboard contains all the notes of music, and the artist is born (sic) to pick and choose and group these elements that the result may be beautiful, as the musician gathers his notes and forms his chords until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter that Nature is... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - 1966 - 386 Seiten
...some of the forms of nature, and copies of a few of her evanescent effects?" JA McN. Whistler: "Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...and choose, and group with science, these elements." ally consist of lines or brush strokes and is for the most part not twodimensional. It is the image... | |
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