Lectures on ArtMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 232 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 232 - ... of the varied life of men, and the very sky and waste of air above us, have seemed all to conspire together to make us calm and happy, not slothful but restful. Still oftener belike it has given us those other times, when at last, after many a struggle with incongruous hindrances, our own chosen work has lain before us disentangled from all encumbrances and unrealities, and we have felt that nothing could withhold us, not even ourselves, from doing the work we were born to do, and that we were...
Σελίδα 175 - What I mean by art is some creation of man which appeals to his emotions and his intellect by means of his senses.
Σελίδα 220 - And once more; whatever you have in your rooms think first of the walls; for they are that which makes your house and home...
Σελίδα 220 - XV's time, seems to me merely ridiculous. So I say our furniture should be good citizen's furniture, solid and well made in workmanship, and in design should have nothing about it that is not easily defensible, no monstrosities or extravagances, not even of beauty, lest we weary of it: as to matters of construction, it should not have to depend on the special skill of a very- picked workman, or the superexcellence of his glue, but be made on the proper principles of the art of joinery: also I think...
Σελίδα 206 - How well I remember as a boy my first acquaintance with a room hung with faded greenery at Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, by Chingford Hatch, in Epping Forest, and the impression of romance that it made upon me! A feeling that always comes back on me when I read, as I often do, Sir Walter Scott's Antiquary...
Σελίδα 217 - ... some beautiful piece of nature must have pressed itself on our notice so forcibly that we are quite full of it, and can, by submitting ourselves to the rules of art, express our pleasure to others, and give them some of the keen delight that we ourselves have felt.
Σελίδα 210 - America ; this gave the dyers one new material in itself good, and one that was doubtful or bad. The good one was the new insect dye, cochineal, which at first was used only for dyeing crimson. . . . The bad new material was logwood, so fugitive a dye as to be quite worthless as a color by itself (as it was first used) and to my mind of very little use otherwise.
Σελίδα 153 - Roman pattern design that clove to the arts. There is no mystery in them, and little interest in their growth, though they are rich and handsome ; indeed, they scarcely do grow at all, they are rather stuck together ; for the real connected pattern, where one member grows naturally and necessarily out of another — where the whole thing is alive as a real tree or flower is — all this is an invention of what followed Roman art, and is unknown both to the classical and the ancient world.
Σελίδα 174 - Lesser Arts of Life may not seem to some of you worth considering, even for an hour. In these brisk days of the world, amidst this high civilisation of ours, we are too eager and busy, it may be said, to take note of any form of art that does not either stir our emotions deeply, or strain the attention of the most intellectual part of our minds. Now for this rejection of the lesser arts there may be something to be said, supposing it be done in a certain way and with certain ends in view; nevertheless...
Σελίδα 180 - ... unwitting indeed, but are none the less oppressors — oppressors of the arts, and therefore of the people, who have a right to the solace which the arts alone can give to the life of simple men. Well, these men are, singly or in combination, the rich and powerful of the world ; they rule...