First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily tends to enervate the mind, to intercept our view of nature, and to distract the attention by a variety of unattainable excellence. An intimate acquaintance with the works of the celebrated... First Principles of Symmetrical Beauty - Page 8by David Ramsay Hay - 1846 - 88 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Northcote - 1830 - 400 pages
...emolument and patronage, or by improving the public taste. I shall consider each of these in order. First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...but will never produce one work of original genius, — one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, I might cite the works of... | |
| James Northcote - 1830 - 406 pages
...emolument and patronage, or by improving the public taste. I shall consider each of these in order. First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...taste, but will never produce one work of original genius,—one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, I might cite the works... | |
| Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1838 - 244 pages
...improving the public taste. We shall bestow a short consideration on the influence of each. First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...but will never produce one work of original genius, one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, we might cite the history of the... | |
| Benjamin Robert Haydon, William Hazlitt - Arts - 1838 - 244 pages
...improving the public taste. We J shall bestow a short consideration on the influence of each. \ First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...but will never produce one work of original genius, one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, we might cite the history of the... | |
| William Hazlitt - Art - 1843 - 450 pages
...by improving the public taste. I shall bestow a short consideration on the influence of each. First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...but will never produce one work of original genius, one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, I might cite the history of the... | |
| Ireland - 1854 - 592 pages
...Hazlit is an authority we will quote against Mr. Morris Moore, and those who think with him : he says, "a, constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...but will never produce one work of original genius." In practice, it is exactly so — thosewhoaredistinguishedforbeing good copyists are seldom good anything... | |
| William Hazlitt - Art - 1856 - 446 pages
...by improving the public taste. I shall bestow a short consideration on the influence of each. First, a constant reference to the best models of art necessarily...but will never produce one work of original genius, one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, I might cite the history of the... | |
| William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Art - 1873 - 508 pages
...intercept our view of nature, and todistract the attention by a variety of unattainable excellences. An intimate acquaintance with the works of the celebrated...but will never produce one work of original genius — one great artist. In proof of the general truth of this observation, we might cite the works of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 pages
...necessarily tends to enervate the mind, to intercept oar view of nature, and to distract the attention by . variety of unattainable excellence. An intimate acquaintance...will never produce one work of original genius,— one great artist.' 409. Cimohu1. Giovanni Cimabue, of Florence (1240? 1302), the 'Father of Modern... | |
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