Beholder Quotes - Page 5

• Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Communication, Thinking, Atmosphere

  Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press

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• But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, America, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.96, Library of America

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• A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Healthy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

  Bruce Lee

  Calm, Happenings

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.52, Tuttle Publishing

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• Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Art, Eye, Interpretation

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• I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me 'famous', that's their business. I'm just me, a guy who messes around with airplanes and writes books that make sense to him.

  Richard Bach

  Book, Mean, Eye

  Source: rbach.proboards.com

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• The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

  Jim Grimsley

  Art, Mind, Singers

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• The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman. These things do not come near it - the experience of beauty, the event of beauty. The anxiety about it is what makes it such a central concern of culture and makes us so interested in it.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Vision, World

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• A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Character, Men

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• Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Beholder!

  Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

  Eye, Beauty Inside And, Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

  Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (2011). “Faith and Unfaith, a Novel”

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

  Charlie Brooker

  Eye, Bells, Association

  "Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe", Season 4, Episode 1, September 25, 2007.

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• Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Buddhism, Abuse

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• In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Mean, Eye

  "Journal of Delacroix". Book by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p.334, 1980.

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• How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Beautiful, Should Have, May

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.105

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• The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mistake, Taken

  Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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• Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

  Juvenal

  Luck, Mirth, Raises

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• They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.

  Craig Stone

  Eye, Sheep, Mind

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• A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Eye, Garden, Play

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• Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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• An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Artist, Color, Play

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• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

  Joseph Addison

  Acceptance, Awkward, Merit

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.118

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• Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

  Georges Braque

  Perspective, Painting, Disappear

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.

  Marisa Miller

  Eye, Shy, Kind

  Maxim Interview, www.maxim.com. July 15, 2008.

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