Elements of Art Criticism: Comprising a Treatise on the Principles of Man's Nature as Addressed by Art, Together with a Historic Survey of the Methods of Art Execution in the Departments of Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Landscape Gardening, and the Decorative Arts |
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Page 34 - FEELING Is that sense by which we distinguish the different qualities of bodies ; such as heat and cold, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness, figure, solidity, motion, and extension.
Page 81 - But all these exertions of the intellect are totally distinct from taste, properly so called, which is the instinctive and instant preferring of one material object to another without any obvious reason, except that it is proper to human nature in its perfection so to do.
Page 110 - ... be still great, I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing ; and I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love Nature, than teach the looking at Nature that they may learn to draw. It is surely also a more important thing for young people and unprofessional students, to know how to appreciate the art of others, than to gain much power in art themselves.
Page 81 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Page 164 - If the distance from the chin to the roots of the hair be divided into three parts, one of these terminates at the nostrils, the other at the eyebrows." "The foot is a sixth of the stature ; the cubit, or distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and also the breadth of the chest, is a fourth. The height of the human frame is the same with the measure from one hand to the other.
Page 93 - Though grace is so difficult to be accounted for in general, yet I have observed two particular things which, I think, hold universally in relation to it. The first is that there is no grace without motion ; by which I mean, without some genteel or pleasing motion, either of the whole body or of some limb, or at least of some feature.
Page 205 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven.
Page 361 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 73 - I am inclined to believe some general laws of the Creator prevailed with respect to the agreeable or unpleasing affections of all our senses ; at least the supposition does not derogate from the wisdom or power of God, and seems highly consonant to the simplicity of the microcosm in general.
Page 326 - ... approach the nearest to perfection. His unaffected breadth of light and shadow, the simplicity of colouring, which, holding its proper rank, does not draw aside the least part of the attention from the subject, and the solemn effect of that twilight which seems diffused over his pictures, appear to me to correspond with grave and dignified subjects, better than the more artificial brilliancy of sunshine which enlightens the pictures of Titian...