Their Own Light Quotes by Ernst Gombrich

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided…
• 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…
• Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What…
• The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy…
• There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

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