Beholder Quote by Ernst Gombrich Download Open image “The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.” — Ernst Gombrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beholder Inspirational Painter Painting
I am not a painter. I am the painting. Where the painter has got lost into the painting. — OSHO Copy Share Image
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
“We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star-shaped, though… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I find it's often in huge tits, too. — Brad Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
