Quotes by Ernst Gombrich - Page 1

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.
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Art
Copies
Doe
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The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
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Beholder
Painter
Painting
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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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Art
Music
Jazz
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One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.
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Enjoy
Existence
Genius
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All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.
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Art
Creation
Substitutes
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If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
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Looks
Perception
World
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
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Needle And Thread
Needles
Thread
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Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
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Wise
College
Eye
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All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.
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Artistic
Discovery
Reality
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All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.
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Artist
Drawing
Responsibility
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One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.
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Art
Different
Real
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During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
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Art
Abuse
Taste
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It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.
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Appreciate
Eye
Fall
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What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
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Artist
Mean
Worry
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The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.
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Art
Truth
Sunshine
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The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.
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Art
Autumn
Eye
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