Quotes for All
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind’s eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature? Eugene Delacroix
The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess. Ernst Gombrich
Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it’s beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have … Read more
A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust. Ellen G. White
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you … The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again. Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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. Egon Schiele
Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation. E. A. Bucchianeri
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. Frederick Lenz
Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life. Frederick Lenz
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions. Francois de La Rochefoucauld