 Corot's letters, spoke of the artistic value of dim dawns and dusks, when the mean facts of life are lost in exquisite and evanescent effects, when common things are touched with mystery and transfigured with beauty, when the warehouses become as palaces...  Miscellanies - 65. oldalszerző: Oscar Wilde - 1908 - 343 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 342 oldal
...try and find out the plot; at dilettanti in general and amateurs in particular ; and (O mea culpaf) at dress reformers most of all. ' Did not Velasquez...a certain entourage, and can no more be born of a » 65 nation that is devoid of any sense of beauty than a fig can grow from a thorn or a rose blossom... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1906 - 356 oldal
...things about them,• Mr. Whistler concluded his lecture with a pretty passage about Fusiyama on a fan,7 and made his bow to an audience which he had succeeded...entirely from Mr. Whistler. An artist is not an isolated eccentricity.8 He is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage, and can no more be... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 352 oldal
...the archaeologists, who spend their lives in verifying the birthplaces of nobodies, and estimate 64 the value of a work of art by its date or its decay...a certain entourage, and can no more be born of a > 65 nation that is devoid of any sense of beauty than a fig can grow from a thorn or a rose blossom... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 386 oldal
...his real eloquence. Of course, with regard to the value of beautiful surroundings, I entirely differ from Mr. Whistler. An artist is not an isolated fact; he is valuable to science their maladies were and how absolutely uninteresting the slightest symptoms of... | |
 | Karl Lück - 1927 - 228 oldal
...students, who had been killed by the townsmen in a quarrel between „town and gown". 348 — 349. S. 65: An artist is not an isolated fact; he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage. Milieu: Littre: 18. Terme de biologie. Le tout complexe represente par les objets qui entourent les... | |
 | Lawrence Danson - 1997 - 214 oldal
...himself, Wilde had to temper his own antihistoricism, as he did in his review of the Ten O'Clock': 'An artist is not an isolated fact; he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage . . .'." Mainly he had to defend words over paint: 'the poet is the supreme Artist, for he is the master... | |
 | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra - 2002 - 352 oldal
...the publication of a book. As Oscar Wilde observed in his review of Whistler's "Ten O'Clock" lecture, 'An Artist is not an isolated fact; he is the resultant of a certain milieu and a certain entourage" (qtd. in Whistler, 161). For many artists, the immediate entourage included studio assistants, pupils,... | |
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