 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Miller Gray - 1895 - 188 pages
...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 that is dainty and loveable in nature' — ' dainty and loveable ' to the eye, he clearly... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 pages
...Birmingham and Manchester arose in their might — and Art was relegated to the curiosity shop. Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all...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, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 620 pages
...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... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 224 pages
...elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. ********** The artist is born to pick, and choose, and group...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... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1903 - 272 pages
...about the perfection of harmony worthy a picture is rare, and not common at all." " Nature," he says, " contains the elements, in colour and form, of all...beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony." 2 Thus in his landscapes, as in his... | |
 | Alfred Stieglitz - 1903 - 616 pages
...people questioned not, and had nothing to say in the matter. €J Nature contains the elements in color 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. €J To say to the painter that Nature... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 336 pages
...in South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. What is Art ? "Nature contains the elements, in color 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. . . . He does not confine himself to... | |
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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... 
