 | 1904 - 502 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. That Nature is always right is an assertion artistically as untrue as it is one whose truth is universally... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1926 - 462 pages
...instance, can be happier or more sensible, wittier or more effective, than this ? ' 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.' Not of course that this is a discovery of Mr. Whistler's ; for the finest and the fullest evidence... | |
 | 1909 - 520 pages
...forth from chaos glorious harmony. To say to the painter, that 56 The Yale Literary Magazine. [No. 665 Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit on the piano." It is in this re-arrangement and refinement upon Nature, that Whistler's art becomes an exquisite music,... | |
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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. 
