Beholder Quotes - Page 4

• The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Simple, Simplicity

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• All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Mind, Essentials

  Henri Matisse, John M. Jacobus (1973). “Henri Matisse”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Giving, Inspire, Style

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• A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Matter, Significance

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 413, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Judging

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• Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

  Tom Lehrer

  Sex, Mind, Filth

  Song: Smut, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Satanic, Deeds

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.141, Penguin

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• Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• Pornography is in the loin of the beholder.

  Charles Rembar

  Witty, Sex, Pornography

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• All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
  For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
  When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
  I could tell you things about Peter Pan
  and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

  Tom Lehrer

  Book, Dirty, Men

  Song: Smut, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Beauty is in the behind of the beholder!

  Irwin Corey

  Behinds

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• At the end of the day, women must understand how they look is important, but not all-important; that there are different ideas of beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder and it comes from within.

  Poppy King

  Beauty, Eye, Ideas

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• The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Men, Suffering, Dazzle

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• I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Eye, Race, I've Learned

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

  Mary Balogh

  Moving, Twilight, Passion

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• It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation.

  Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

  Appreciation, Heart, Eye

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• Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

  Kathy Lette

  Art, Wallets, Art Is

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• Understanding God's great love for undeserving people such as us, gives us insight into His great majesty. As beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so great love reveals the nature of the One who loves deeply.

  Mike Bickle

  Eye, Deep Love, Understanding God

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• What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

  Medardo Rosso

  Artist, Humanity, Process

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• Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

  Victoria Alexander

  Adventure, Eye, Eye Of The Beholder

  Victoria Alexander (2008). “Seduction of a Proper Gentleman”, Avon

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• The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Done, Toss

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Wall, Awakening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics

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• Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Insanity, Folly

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• Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Glasses, Faces

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “The Very Best of Jonathan Swift In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.534, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  Seth Godin

  Photography, Art, Wall

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