WattsMethuen, 1904 - 195 Seiten |
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Seite 168 - In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering thro' the dewy windowpane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking, a symbolical language for something within me that already and forever exists, than observing anything new.
Seite 168 - I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering thro' the dewy windowpane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking, a symbolical language for something within me that already and forever exists, than observing anything new. Even when that latter is the case, yet still I have always an obscure feeling as if that new phaenomenon were the dim Awaking of a forgotten or hidden Truth of my inner Nature/ It is still interesting as a Word, a Symbol!
Seite 107 - 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.
Seite 181 - IT is not the lover of pictures, but the devotee of his own spiritual emotions who needs to be told that technique is art ; that it is as inseparable from art as features from facial expression, as body from soul in a world where force and matter seem inextricably entangled. In fact, the man who has no interest in technical questions has no interest in art ; he loves it as those love you who profess only love for your soul.
Seite 104 - Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab, Who has done his day's work?
Seite 21 - Peel would appoint him chairman of a royal commission (at first a select committee) 'to take into consideration the Promotion of the Fine Arts of this Country, in connexion with the Rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament'.
Seite 57 - The Pessimistic Series," begins with "Life's Illusions," painted in 1849. "It is," says Watts, " an allegorical design typifying the march of human life." Fair visions of Beauty, the abstract embodiments of divers forms of Hope and Ambition, hover high in the air above the gulf which stands as the goal of all men's lives. At their feet lie the shattered symbols of human greatness and power, and upon the narrow space of earth that overhangs the deep abyss are figured the brighter forms of illusions...
Seite 94 - The ugliness of most things connected with our ordinary habits is most remarkable. A welldressed gentleman ready for dinner or attired for any ceremony is a pitiable example — his vesture nearly formless and quite foldless if he can have his will. His legs, unshapen props — his shirt front, a void — his dress coat, an unspeakable piece of ignobleness. Put it into sculpture, and see the result.
Seite 168 - ... part of the body. His landscape is that of one for whom the finger of God is continually creating the earth over again, day by day, at sunrise, at twilight, and at sunset. A great joy breaks out of all his work, as if the face of man and the body of woman, and the form and colour of the earth and sky, were not so much the slaves and recipients of light, waiting for the moment in which they should become worthy of art, but themselves radiated light out of their own substance, and art were rather...
Seite 60 - Do you know Watts? The man who is not employed on Houses of Parliament — to my mind the only real painter of history or thought we have in England. A great fellow, or I am much mistaken — great as one of these same Savoy knots of rock— and we suffer the clouds to lie upon him, with thunder and famine at once in the thick of them. If you have time when you come to town, and have not seen it, look at the Time and Oblivion in his studio.