 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...  The Chautauquan: a weekly newsmagazine - Page 2941908Full view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 810 pages
...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 - 788 pages
...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 pages
...And Birmingham and Manchester arose in their might — and Art was relegated to the curiosity shop. : Nature contains the elements, in colour and form,...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 —... | |
 | John Miller Gray - 1895 - 188 pages
...Again, his theory of the artist's relation to nature is well deserving of attention; his theory that ' Nature contains the elements, in colour and form,...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... | |
 | Eric Meade - 1895 - 134 pages
...ship all Art." And Whistler, who contends that the artist should apply Nature to his purposes, says, "Nature contains the elements in colour and form of...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... | |
 | Richard Muther - 1896 - 900 pages
...idea that nature is always beautiful, is the theme of his fine mockery. " Nature indeed," he writes, " contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures,...beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony." The sharply outlined distinctness of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 620 pages
...imitation, is the keynote of his art. As he has told us in a pamphlet on the subject : — ' Nature, indeed, contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures,...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 pages
...theories ; the latter when even such a slight suggestion of subject was wanting. " Nature," he wrote, " contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures,...beautiful ... as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony." " Nature," he adds, " sings her exquisite... | |
 | 1899 - 880 pages
...is rich enough to supply us all." Whistler writes: "Nature, indeed, contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains...beautiful, as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony." Individuality in art, as in everything else,... | |
 | 1899 - 636 pages
...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... | |
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