 | 1913 - 1162 pages
...record of fact. Once again to quote a saying of Mr. Whistler's, "To say to the painter [or photographer] Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player he may sit on the piano." Your treatment of a subject will vary according to the effect you wish to... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - 1983 - 344 pages
...notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano.7 That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pages
...notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano. That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth is... | |
 | Henri Dorra - 1994 - 420 pages
...notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano. That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue as it is one whose truth is universally... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...'haze') Yes madam, Nature is creeping up. 12438 Nature is usually wrong. 12439 To say to the painter an Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock'n'roll or Christianity. 6221 'Imagine 12440 Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry... | |
 | Richard H. Love, Carl William Peters - 1999 - 960 pages
...notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano. — James Abbott McNeill Whistler The Gentle Art of Making Enemies 1892 The Trail to Woodstock Apparently,... | |
 | Martin Gayford, Karen Wright - 2000 - 654 pages
...notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano. That Nature is always right, is an assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth is... | |
 | Marlies Kronegger - 2000 - 508 pages
...notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano."16 As the mix of dim light and fog denied the subject any specificity, one is left with a near... | |
 | Jane F. Fulcher - 2001 - 412 pages
...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, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano."48 The key difference between Laforgue and Whistler is that Whistler remained more indebted... | |
 | Mark W. Turner - 2003 - 196 pages
...'Ten O'Clock Lecture', which attacks realist modes of representation because 'to say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano'. ' ' Far from follow1ng the dictates of Nature, the modern artist should embrace the tentative and the... | |
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To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano. 
