 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1854 - 474 oldal
...addressing itself to such or such a 1 See the Tempest of Haydn, among the pianoforte works of this master. sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the soul,...composition. To this is particularly applied the precept of unity and variety. But, in saying this, we have said nothing so long as we have not determined the... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 514 oldal
...Every work of art, which does not express an idea, signifies nothing. In addressing to one or another sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the soul, and bear thither a sentiment or thought capable of touching or elevating it. From this fundamental rule all others are... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius Root - 1864 - 470 oldal
...Every work of art, which does not express an idea, signifies nothing. In addressing to one or another sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the soul, and bear thither a sentiment or thought capable of touching or elevating it. From this fundamental rule all others are... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1884 - 444 oldal
...all the realization of the idea, and not the imitation of such or such a particular form" (158). " Every work of art that does not express an idea, signifies...a sentiment, capable of touching or elevating it" (171). " Genius is a ready and sure perception of the right proportion in which the ideal and the natural... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1885 - 448 oldal
...idea, signifies nothing ; in addressing itself to such or such a sense, it must penetrate to the miud, to the soul, and bear thither a thought, a sentiment, capable of touching or elevating it" (171). " Genius is a ready and sure perception of the right proportion in which the ideal and the natural... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1888 - 444 oldal
...in addressing itself to such or such a sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the i .418 APPENDIX. soul, and bear thither a thought, a sentiment, capable of touching or elevating it" (171). " Genius is a ready and sure perception of the right proportion in which the ideal and the natural... | |
 | 1900 - 470 oldal
...famous axiom — Ut pictura poesis; or, at least, it is very certain that painting cannot do everything that poetry can do. Everybody admires the picture...for example, that which is continually and justly recommended—composition. To this is particularly applied the precept of unity and variety. But, in... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 440 oldal
...axiom, — Ut pictura poesis ; or, at least, it is very certain that painting cannot do everything that poetry can do. Everybody admires the picture...composition. To this is particularly applied the precept of unity and variety. But, in saying this, we have said nothing so long as we have not determined the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 454 oldal
...or, at least, it is very certain that painting cannot do everything that poetry can do. Every* body admires the picture of Rumor, drawn by Virgil; but...composition. To this is particularly applied the precept of unity and variety. But, in saying this, we have said nothing so long as we have not determined the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1904 - 878 oldal
...As a nation, we are a practical and a cynical people, and the sculptors that appeal to us — appeal to the mind, to the soul, and bear thither a thought, a sentiment, capable of touching or elevating it — are few. In the comprehensive introduction to his " History of American Sculpture," Mr. Lorado... | |
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So the arts have a common end, and entirely different means. Hence the general rules common to all, and particular rules for each. I have neither time nor space to enter into details on this point. I limit myself to repeating that the great law which... 
