Ernst Gombrich Quotes
- Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
- One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands…
- The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
- All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image…
- One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
- It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the…
- The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability…
- If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
- All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but…
- Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to…
- The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they…
- There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
- What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether…