 | 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 - 812 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 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... | |
 | 1899 - 882 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 634 pages
...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... | |
 | 1903 - 784 pages
...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... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1903 - 1198 pages
...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... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1904 - 364 pages
...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... 
