Art Quote by W.S. Gilbert Download Open image ““Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”” — W.S. Gilbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.” — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything… — Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Copy Share Image
“CHORUS What, never? CAPTAIN No, never! CHORUS What, never? CAPTAIN Well, hardly ever!” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would mean that… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Now then, we've had a capital lunch, and we're quite ready. Have all the painful preparations been made?” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sing 'Hey to you — good-day to you' — Sing 'Bah to you — ha! ha! to you' — Sing 'Booh to you —… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I mean to rule the earth, As he the sky — We really know our worth, The sun and I” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and weary dances” — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; When they asked, "Does it hurt?" He… — W.S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
