 I call an idea great in 1 proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the ' mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received.  The Quarterly Review - Page 496edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Blackie - Aesthetics - 1858 - 300 pages
...observations in the text agree entirely with Mr BUSKIN'S dictum with regard to greatness in art. ' I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the...call an idea great in proportion as it is received hy a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying, exercises and exalts... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - Aesthetics - 1858 - 296 pages
...observations in the text agree entirely with Mr KUSKIN'S dictum with regard to greatness in art. ' I say that the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the...by any means whatsoever, the greatest number of the greutest ideas; and I call an idea great in proportion as it is received by a higher faculty of the... | |
 | 1878 - 592 pages
...Ruskin's definition of greatness in art, namely, "that art is greatest which conveys to the mind of l he spectator, by any means whatsoever, the greatest number...greatest ideas, and I call an idea great in proportion aa it is received by a higher faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and in occupying,... | |
 | William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...theories of art peculiar to Ruskin. The first is his definition of great art : — " That art is the greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator,...whatsoever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas." J " No weight, nor mass, nor beauty of execution is able to outweigh one grain or fragment of thought."... | |
 | 1884 - 616 pages
...connection with its spring. Aunt D. As we are seeking for definitions, listen to this (reads) : ' I say that the Art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas ; and I call an idea great in proportion as it... | |
 | 1884 - 628 pages
...connection with its spring. Aunt D. As we are seeking for definitions, listen to this (reads) : ' I say that the Art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator, by any means whatever, the greatest number of the greatest ideas ; and I call an idea great in proportion as it... | |
 | American periodicals - 1900 - 848 pages
...definition of art always lacked precision because he never went to the root of the matter. When he says, "The art is greatest which conveys to the mind of...whatsoever the greatest number of the greatest ideas," he only shows that he confounds the intellectual quality of the artist with the artistic, while they... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - Aesthetics - 1887 - 318 pages
...detracts from it. Hence we cannot wholly believe with the one Slade professor (Mr. Ruskin) that that " art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the spectator...whatsoever the greatest number of the greatest ideas;" while, on the contrary, we may entirely agree with the other Slade professor (Mr. Wyatt) that nothing... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...though it sometimes blinds us to its ends. 238 Buskin : Modern Painters. Preface. ( Second edition. ) The art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the...occupies, and in occupying exercises and exalts, the facujty by which it is received. 2.39 Buskin: Modern Painters. Pt. i. Sec. 1, Ch. 2. No work of any... | |
 | Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead - Art - 1892 - 204 pages
...only realizable as embodied in a Garibaldi or a Lancelot. We arrive, then, at the definition that " the art is greatest which conveys to the mind of the...faculty of the mind, and as it more fully occupies, and occupying exercises and exalts, the faculty by which it is received." And now comes the first difficulty... | |
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