My intention has not been so much to paint pictures that will charm the eye, as to suggest great thoughts that will appeal to the imagination and the heart, and kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity. Watts - Seite 107von Rose Esther Dorothea Sketchley - 1904 - 195 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Albert Shaw - 1901 - 1526 Seiten
...was not able to carry out that splendid idea, he has painted many pictures which, in his own words, suggest great thoughts that will appeal to the imagination...and kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity. In his later years he has painted pictures illustrative of heroism in humble life. But space would... | |
| 1905 - 504 Seiten
...and his ashes buried in the cemetery at Compton near his favorite Surrey home of Limnerslease. &rt of MY intention has not been so much to paint pictures...and kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity. — GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS MH SPIELMANN 'NINETEENTH CENTURY' 18»T IT must be recognized at the outset... | |
| 1908 - 216 Seiten
...ideals are best explained in his own words: "My intention has not been so much to paint pictures that charm the eye, as to suggest great thoughts that will...kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity." The main object of a painter should be " demanding noble aspirations, condemning in the most trenchant... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1909 - 300 Seiten
...reality was constructed, and carried out, along ideal lines. In an ever-memorable sentence he wrote: "My intention has not been so much to paint pictures...kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity." And so great as was his mastery of technique, and his power in draughtmanship, it was far greater in... | |
| David Charles Preyer - 1909 - 552 Seiten
...singleness of purpose he constantly aimed, as he himself expressed it, " to paint pictures, not so much to charm the eye as to suggest great thoughts that will...kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity." He was, if the paradoxical form be allowed, an ideal realist. Thus, when he paints Death, it is not... | |
| Delphian Society - 1912 - 642 Seiten
...more admirable and high-minded than George Frederick Watts ( 1817-1904) : "My intention has been not so much to paint pictures that will charm the eye...kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity." This he has accomplished, although the eye is nevertheless charmed. His Orpheus and Eurydice is wonderful... | |
| Frederick Gordon Bonser - 1920 - 496 Seiten
...believe that in the measure in which both are expressive of deeply significant motifs or themes both " will appeal to the imagination and the heart and kindle all that is best and noblest." But, as a means of really understanding and appreciating, it is necessary, or at least fundamentally... | |
| Frederick Gordon Bonser - 1921 - 492 Seiten
...in the measure in which both are expressive oi deeply significant motifs or themes both '' will appc to the imagination and the heart and kindle all that is best and noblest." But, as a means of really understanding and appreciating, it is necessary, or at \e&?. fundamentally... | |
| Sir William Orpen - 1924 - 434 Seiten
...Victorian painting. His love of Greek art and refined imagination may be seen in this idealised picture. suggest great thoughts that will appeal to the imagination...kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity." Successful in his early years and never covetous of great wealth, Watts was able in his middle years... | |
| 1927 - 462 Seiten
...righteousness. Watts himself says, "All my pictures in the Tate Gallery are symbolical and for all time. My intention has not been so much to paint pictures...kindle all that is best and noblest in humanity." The Lord is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous. The way of the wicked... | |
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