 | James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 Seiten
...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,...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. iron. The windows of the Crystal Palace are seen from all points of London. The holiday maker rejoices... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 Seiten
...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,...doctrine almost blasphemous. So incorporated with pur education has the supposed aphorism become, that its belief is held to be part of our moral being,... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1904 - 370 Seiten
...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,...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, all is of iron.... | |
 | 1906 - 950 Seiten
...wrong: that is to say, the condition of things that shall bring about the perfection of harmony worth a picture is rare, and not common at all. This would...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without all is of iron.... | |
 | Joseph Mallord William Turner - 1906 - 98 Seiten
...assertion, artistically, as untrue, as it is one whose truth is universally taken for granted. . . . This would seem, to even the most intelligent, a doctrine...themselves have, in our ear, the ring of religion. . . . "He (the artist) does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade... | |
 | 1907 - 554 Seiten
...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,...seldom does nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, all is of iron.... | |
 | 1908 - 974 Seiten
...wrong: that is to say, the condition of things that shall bring about the perfection of harmony worth a picture is rare, and not common at all. This would...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without all is of iron.... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1908 - 490 Seiten
...wrong: that is to say, the condition of things that shall bring about the perfection of harmony worth a picture is rare, and not common at all. This would...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without all is of iron.... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 472 Seiten
...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,...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, all is of iron.... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1916 - 482 Seiten
...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,...seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, all is of iron.... | |
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That nature is always right is an assertion, artistically, as untrue as it is one whose truth is universally taken for granted. Nature is very rarely right — to such an extent, even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong; that is... 
