 The slightness which we see in his best works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very well that a steady attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious...  Memoir of the life of David Cox - Page 184by Nathanael Neal Solly - 1873 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...slightness which we see in his best works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high finishing, or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
 | George Williams Fulcher - 1856 - 266 pages
...slightness which we see in his best works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high finishing, or smoothness, without such attention.*... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 pages
...slightness which we see in his best works can not always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high finishing, or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...slightness which we see in his best works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high finishing, or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...slightness we see in Gainsborough's works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high-finishing or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...slightness we see in Gainsborough's works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high-finishing or smoothness, without SUCh attention.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...best works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However the}- may appear to superficial obscrvero, painters know very well that a steady attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to tho mind, than any mode of high finishing, or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
 | Robert Burn - 1888 - 340 pages
...Greek sculptors. On the difficulty of producing a general effect in art, Sir J. Reynolds says : — " A steady attention to the general effect takes up more time and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high finishing or smoothness without such attention."... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 pages
...slightness we see in Gainsborough's works cannot always be imputed to negligence. However they may appear to superficial observers, painters know very...attention to the general effect takes up more time, and is much more laborious to the mind, than any mode of high-finishing or smoothness, without such attention.... | |
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