Beholder Quotes

132 Beholder quotes by 109 unique authors

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in… — Henri Matisse
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter... — Henri Matisse
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should. — Georges Braque
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. — Paul Klee
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not… — Roger Fry
It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few… — Peter M. Brant
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the… — Alfred Sisley
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that… — Walter J. Phillips
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but… — Charles E. Burchfield
Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A… — Frederick Lenz
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the… — Craig Stone
Great music is in the ear of the beholder. — Noel Gallagher
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that… — Salma Hayek
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. — Aldous Huxley
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars… — Stephen King
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is… — Chuck Palahniuk
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. — Laurence J. Peter
An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to… — Steven Pinker
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder… — Alfred Sisley
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. — Jonathan Swift
Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with… — Gwen Verdon
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. — H.G. Wells

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