 | James McNeill Whistler - Art - 1888 - 42 pages
...a work of Art, it is asked : "What good shall it do?" Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear... | |
 | American literature - 1891 - 806 pages
...a work of Art, it is asked: " What good shall it do ?" Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...people have acquired the habit of looking, as who would say, not at a picture, but through it, at some human fact that shall, or shall not, from a social... | |
 | John Miller Gray - Art - 1895 - 188 pages
...these upon the beholder. With Art, he says, all should be upon the surface ; and he complains that 'people have acquired the habit of looking, as who...picture, but through it, at some human fact that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state.' The phrasing of Mr.... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 pages
...a work of Art, it is asked : "What good shall it do?" Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - Artists - 1903 - 268 pages
...Beauty is confounded with virtue, and before a work of art, it is asked 'What good shall it do? . . . And thus the people have acquired the habit of looking,...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental and moral state." The "unattached writer"... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - Aesthetics - 1904 - 364 pages
...work of Art, it is asked : " What good shall it do ? " Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear... | |
 | Hans Wolfgang Singer - 1905 - 138 pages
...work of art, it is asked : ' What good shall it do ? ' " Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...picture, but through it, at some human fact that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 490 pages
...a work of Art, it is asked : " What good shall it do?" Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 482 pages
...work of Art, it is asked : " What good shall it do ? " Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work...picture, but through it, at some human fact, that shall, or shall not, from a social point of view, better their mental or moral state. So we have come to hear... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl - Art - 1916 - 618 pages
...God's creations are excused by their usefulness. "Hence it is that nobility of action in this light is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it. ... So we have come to hear of the painting that elevates and of the duty of the painter — of the... | |
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Hence it is that nobility of action, in this life, is hopelessly linked with the merit of the work that portrays it; and thus the people have acquired the habit of looking, as who should say, not at a picture, but through it, at some human fact, that... 
