"Painting predicates what man wants to see,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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“This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.”
“Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.”
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
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“O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.”
“Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.”
“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”
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“Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.”
“The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.”
“I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.”