Volné směry: umělecký měsíčník, Volume 10

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Spolek výtvarných umělců "Mánes"., 1906
 

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Page 341 - I found most suitable to my situation and idle disposition. " Laying it down first as an axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory, perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of the figure, as a man who can write freely hath of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet and their infinite combinations (each of these being composed of lines), and would consequently be an accurate designer.
Page 341 - I therefore endeavoured to habituate myself to the exercise of a sort of technical memory ; and by repeating in my own mind the parts of which objects were composed, I could by degrees combine and put them down with my pencil. Thus, with all the drawbacks which resulted from the circumstances I have mentioned, I had one material advantage over my competitors, viz. the early habit I thus acquired of retaining in my mind's eye, without coldly copying it on the spot, whatever I intended to imitate.
Page 356 - Upon the whole of this account we find, that the utmost beauty of colouring depends on the great principle of varying by all the means of varying, and on the proper and artful union of that variety; which may be farther proved by supposing the rules here laid down, all or any part of them reversed.
Page 341 - one material advantage over my competitors, viz. the early habit I acquired of retaining in my mind's eye, without coldly copying it on the spot, whatever I intended to imitate. Sometimes, but too seldom, I took the life for correcting the parts I had not perfectly enough remembered, and then I transferred them into my own compositions.
Page 346 - Mr. Bubbleman, that grand Venus (as you are pleased to call it) has not beauty enough for the character of an English cook-maid.
Page 261 - ... mne! mnoho jsem vytrpěl čta vaše zamilované povídačky, než mi napadla myšlénka porovnati lásku větší části vašich románových a novelních párků s láskou vrabčí. A ejhle! rozdílu velikého nenalézám. Hledal jsem ve vašich pověstech lidi, statečné lidi v plném rozkvětu lidskosti, v lásce; a nalezl jsem nejvíce vrabce, bídné vrabce s komisní, ošumělou láskou. „Nic jiného nedělali, lásku mleli", praví nám ilirská národní píseň.
Page 341 - In song and dance about the sacred Hill — Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels Resembles nearest; mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Page 341 - I considered what various ways, and to what different purposes, the memory might be applied ; and fell upon one most suitable to my situation and idle disposition ; laying it down first as an axiom, that he who could by any means acquire and retain in his memory perfect ideas of the subjects he meant to draw, would have as clear a knowledge of the figure as a man who can write freely hath of the twenty-five letters of the alphabet and their infinite combinations.
Page 263 - Denníku, kdybych byl drive sepsal Slávy Dceru : jestli ale to jest ta jediná zkusenost, kterou jen ve stárí nabyti Ize, prosím Boba, abych se velkého stáfí nedockal!

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