DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1274#0010
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our works. How, but by discovering the reality
from the effects, and by attending to the laws of
nature, can we be acquainted with the artificial
rules of relative proportion ? This is the funda-
mental knowledge for every effort of art in which
appearance is concerned ; our conceptions without
it are but chimeras, though founded on argu-
ment : and the brightest understanding has more
than necessary difficulty, wanting this information,
which only can distinguish the true, from the
apparent figure.
For Nothing is seen as it is,
Nothing is as it is seen.
Distance, situation, direction, are altering, making
a new exhibition, a sensible and curious change, but
under government of the regular and fixed laws
of appearance ; yet being naturally accustomed to
this extraordinary, this magical transition, it is in
common as much unnoticed, as is the music of the
spheres, which gives delight to the imagination
our works. How, but by discovering the reality
from the effects, and by attending to the laws of
nature, can we be acquainted with the artificial
rules of relative proportion ? This is the funda-
mental knowledge for every effort of art in which
appearance is concerned ; our conceptions without
it are but chimeras, though founded on argu-
ment : and the brightest understanding has more
than necessary difficulty, wanting this information,
which only can distinguish the true, from the
apparent figure.
For Nothing is seen as it is,
Nothing is as it is seen.
Distance, situation, direction, are altering, making
a new exhibition, a sensible and curious change, but
under government of the regular and fixed laws
of appearance ; yet being naturally accustomed to
this extraordinary, this magical transition, it is in
common as much unnoticed, as is the music of the
spheres, which gives delight to the imagination