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" ... line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which they are capable of conveying to the spirit which has been given him, shall either be left unrecorded, or fade from the book of record. "
The English School of Painting - Page 202
by Ernest Chesneau - 1885 - 339 pages
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The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega, Volumes 1-5

1894 - 752 pages
...to the unwilling and hardened is readily received from words on wings of lovely sound. — HKRDKR. "The whole function of an artist in the world is to be a seeing and a feeling creature. " "Of all the arts beneath the heaven That man has found or God has given, None...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 11

John Ruskin - 1904 - 626 pages
...All its victory depends on the veracity of the one preceding word, " Vidi." The whole function of the artist in the world is to be a seeing and feeling...tenderness and sensitiveness, that no shadow, no hue, line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions...
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The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin, a Biographical ...

William Burgess - 1907 - 492 pages
...the veracity of the one preceding word, "Vidi." THE FUNCTION OF THE ARTIST. The whole function of the artist in the world is to be a seeing and feeling creature; to be an instrument of such tenderness ana sensitiveness, that no shadow, no hue, no line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the...
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Camera Craft, Volume 25

1918 - 590 pages
...right stop to get the required depth, instead of guessing at it as formerly. The whole function of the artist in the world is to be a seeing and feeling...shadow, no hue, no line, no instantaneous and evanescent expession of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which they are capable of conveying...
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John Ruskin's Labour: A Study of Ruskin's Social Theory

P. D. Anthony - 1983 - 236 pages
...than the material creation'. Ruskin repeats the familiar romantic idea that 'the whole function of the artist in the world is to be a seeing and feeling creature', not to think, judge, argue or to know, he may think when he has nothing better to do but 'the work...
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Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience

Jessica R. Feldman - 2002 - 292 pages
...has refined but not substantially altered his juvenile notion of sentiment: The whole function of the artist in the world is to be a seeing and feeling...of such tenderness and sensitiveness, that ... no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which...
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