| Edmund Burke - History - 1772 - 656 pages
...bufinefs of the art, there is no doubt, indeed, but the mintjte painter would be more apt to fucceed : but it is not the eye, it is the mind, which the painter of ganius defires to addrefs ; nor will Jie waile a moment upon thefe f ;>al!er objects, which only ferve... | |
| History - 1803 - 582 pages
...in every one of his figures the character of its Ipecies. If deceiving the eye were the only bufmefs of the art, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter would be more apt to fucceed : but it is not the eye, it is the mind, which the painter of genius delires to addrefs ; nor... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...distinguish one object of the same species from another ; while he, like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one...will he waste a moment upon those smaller objects whirl. only serve to catch the sense* to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...distinguish one object of the same species from another ; while he, like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one of his figures the character of ks species. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art, there is no doubt, indeed, but... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...no new supply. — Swift. MDXIV. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art of painting, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter...genius desires to address; nor will he waste a moment on those smaller objects, which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...no new supply. — Swift. MDXIV. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art of painting, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter...genius desires to address; nor will he waste a moment on those smaller objects, which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract... | |
| William Dunlap - Art - 1834 - 502 pages
...canvas. You seel am fully apprised of the correctness of the observation by Sir Joshua Reynolds, that ' it is not the eye, it is the mind, which the painter of genius desires to address, that it is this intellectual dignity that ennobles the painter's art, that lays the line between him... | |
| 458 pages
...distinguish one object of the same species from another; while he, like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one of his figures the character of its species. (To he continued.) To CLEAN MARBLE, JASPER, PORPHTRT, &c. — Mix up a quantity of the strongest aoap-Ues... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - Aesthetics, Modern - 1852 - 518 pages
...distinguish one object of the same species from another ; while he, like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one...;If deceiving the eye were the only business of the at, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter vould be more apt to succeed ; but it is not... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...no new supply. — Swift. MDXIV. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art of painting, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter...genius desires to address ; nor will he waste a moment on those smaller objects, which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract... | |
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