 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 788 էջ
...definition of their calling : " Nature contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures . . . but the artist is born to pick and choose, and group...these elements, that the result may be beautiful." Whether or not we are to understand that Whistler intended to include an accurate knowledge of physical... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1913 - 810 էջ
...definition of their calling : " Nature contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures . . . but the artist is born to pick and choose, and group...these elements, that the result may be beautiful." Whether or not we are to understand that Whistler intended to include an accurate knowledge of physical... | |
 | 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 էջ
...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,...the result may be beautiful, as the musician gathers Q 2 his his notes, and forms chords, nntil he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.' And he goes... | |
 | 1899 - 880 էջ
...it forth." Millet said: "Nature is rich enough to supply us all." Whistler writes: "Nature, indeed, contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...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,... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1899 - 334 էջ
...a slight suggestion of subject was wanting. " Nature," he wrote, " contains the elements in colour 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." " Nature," he adds, " sings her exquisite... | |
 | 1899 - 636 էջ
...pictures, as the key-board contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick and choose, anil group with science these elements, that the result...beautiful, as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.' Mr. Whistler is, above all others, the... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1903 - 1192 էջ
...qualities, harmonies, pitch, and concord are part of his science of painting. He has said : Nature indeed contains the elements in color and form of all pictures,...beautiful, — as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony. His predilection for color is toward the... | |
 | 1903 - 784 էջ
...qualities, harmonies, pitch, and concord are part of his science of painting. He has said : Nature indeed contains the elements in color and form of all pictures,...beautiful, — as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony. His predilection for color is toward the... | |
 | Henry Rankin Poore - 1903 - 312 էջ
...offence to the author of " Naturalistic Painting," Mr. Francis Bate. "The artist," says Mr. Whistler, "is born to pick, and choose, and group with science...musician gathers his notes and forms his chords until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is,... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1904 - 364 էջ
...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 hia chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is... | |
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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... 
