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The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist’s eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder (Beholder Quotes)
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should (Beholder Quotes)
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 (Beholder Quotes)
The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form (Beholder Quotes)
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective (Beholder Quotes)
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy (Beholder Quotes)
I think that was one of the biggest revelations is that leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder (Beholder Quotes)