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DOI article:[The Dignity of the Snow-capped Mountain, unsigned and untitled citations by J.M. Whistler, P.H. Emerson, from Van Dyke’s “Art for Art’s Sake”]
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The dignity of the snow-capped mountain is lost in distinctness, but
the joy of the tourist is to recognize the traveler on the top. The desire
to see, for the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be grasped,
hence the delight in detail. J. M. Whistler
Art is the application of knowledge for certain ends. But art is raised
to Fine Art when man so applies this knowledge that he affects the intellect
through the senses and so produces esthetic pleasure in us; and the man so
raising an art into a fine art is an artist. Therefore, the real test as to
whether the result of any method of expression is a fine art or not, depends
upon how much of the intellectual element is required in its production.
P. H. Emerson.
Quality is used when speaking of a picture or work which has in it
artistic properties of a special character, in a word, artistic properties which
are distinctive and characteristic of the fineness and subtlety of nature.
P. H. Emerson.
Photographers invariably use the word tone in a wrong sense. What
photographers call “tone” should properly be called color or tint. The
correct meaning of tone is the amount of light received upon the different
planes of an object. P. H. Emerson.
“ In representing nature, vitality counts for more than accuracy.”
“ Objects are placed in air, not against it. The hard outline and the
flat silhouette do not exist.”
" Isolated objects can not be huddled into a pictorial composition as
people are sometimes hurried into matrimony, with the idea that, though
they do not care for each other first, they will become more congenial by
association.”
From Van Dyke's " Art for Art's Sake "
the joy of the tourist is to recognize the traveler on the top. The desire
to see, for the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be grasped,
hence the delight in detail. J. M. Whistler
Art is the application of knowledge for certain ends. But art is raised
to Fine Art when man so applies this knowledge that he affects the intellect
through the senses and so produces esthetic pleasure in us; and the man so
raising an art into a fine art is an artist. Therefore, the real test as to
whether the result of any method of expression is a fine art or not, depends
upon how much of the intellectual element is required in its production.
P. H. Emerson.
Quality is used when speaking of a picture or work which has in it
artistic properties of a special character, in a word, artistic properties which
are distinctive and characteristic of the fineness and subtlety of nature.
P. H. Emerson.
Photographers invariably use the word tone in a wrong sense. What
photographers call “tone” should properly be called color or tint. The
correct meaning of tone is the amount of light received upon the different
planes of an object. P. H. Emerson.
“ In representing nature, vitality counts for more than accuracy.”
“ Objects are placed in air, not against it. The hard outline and the
flat silhouette do not exist.”
" Isolated objects can not be huddled into a pictorial composition as
people are sometimes hurried into matrimony, with the idea that, though
they do not care for each other first, they will become more congenial by
association.”
From Van Dyke's " Art for Art's Sake "
