The Works of John Ruskin: The elements of drawing. The elements of perspective. Aratra penteliciJ. Wiley, 1889 |
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Page vii
... it has sense enough to wish for them . If it merely daubs the paper with shapeless stains , the colour - box may be taken away till it knows better : but as soon as it begins painting red 14 -1 coats on soldiers , striped flags to ships.
... it has sense enough to wish for them . If it merely daubs the paper with shapeless stains , the colour - box may be taken away till it knows better : but as soon as it begins painting red 14 -1 coats on soldiers , striped flags to ships.
Page xii
... efforts and interest in his difficulties . Of course the simplest object which it is possible to set before the eye is a sphere ; and practically , I find a child's toy , a white leather ball , better than anything else ; as toe PREFACE .
... efforts and interest in his difficulties . Of course the simplest object which it is possible to set before the eye is a sphere ; and practically , I find a child's toy , a white leather ball , better than anything else ; as toe PREFACE .
Page xiii
... better next time , and better still the next . But his mind is always fixed on the gradation of shade , and the outline left to take , in due time , care of itself . I call it outline , for the sake of immediate intelligibility ...
... better next time , and better still the next . But his mind is always fixed on the gradation of shade , and the outline left to take , in due time , care of itself . I call it outline , for the sake of immediate intelligibility ...
Page 20
... better , show you how to help yourself . Only you must understand , first of all , that these powers which indeed are noble and desirable , cannot be got without work . It is much easier to learn to draw well , than it is to learn to ...
... better , show you how to help yourself . Only you must understand , first of all , that these powers which indeed are noble and desirable , cannot be got without work . It is much easier to learn to draw well , than it is to learn to ...
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... better to take , in early practice , some instrument with a hard and fine point , both that we may give some support to the hand , and that by working over the subject with so delicate a point , the attention may be properly directed to ...
... better to take , in early practice , some instrument with a hard and fine point , both that we may give some support to the hand , and that by working over the subject with so delicate a point , the attention may be properly directed to ...
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Page 116 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
Page 153 - ... you will find in practice, that brilliancy of hue, and vigour of light, and even the aspect of transparency in shade, are essentially dependent on this character alone ; hardness, coldness, and opacity resulting far more from equality of colour than from nature of colour.
Page xi - I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love Nature, than teach the looking at Nature that they may learn to draw.
Page 188 - Now in art every colour has an opponent colour, which, if brought near it, will relieve it more completely than any other ; so, also, every form and line may be made more striking to the eye by an opponent form or line near them ; a curved line is set off by a straight...
Page viii - God, by which the heavens were of old, and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water...
Page 178 - Rivers in this way are just like wise men, who keep one side of their life for play and another for work ; and can be brilliant, and chattering, and transparent when they are at ease, and yet take deep counsel on the other side when they set themselves to the main purpose.
Page 167 - Thus a musician composes an air, by putting notes together in certain relations ; a poet composes a poem, by putting thoughts and words in pleasant order ; and a painter a picture, by putting thoughts, forms, and colours in pleasant order. In all these cases, observe, an intended unity must be the result of composition. A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand. It is the essence of composition...