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“Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.”

Quote by Kenneth Clark

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

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The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

This book delves into the historical and philosophical differences between the Romantic and Classic art movements, analyzing their influences on art and culture. more

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Kenneth Clark was a renowned psychologist, born on July 24, 1914, and passed away on May 1, 2005. He made significant contributions to the field of psychology, particularly in the areas of cognitive psychology and child psychology. more

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“The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.”

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“Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.”

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“You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.”

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“Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and balance, so Degas repeats the same motifs - it was one of the things that gave him so much sympathy with dancers.”

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“The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.”

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“Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.”

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“The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.”

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“The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by which man affirms his mental scheme, and these symbols, be they pictorial or mathematical, a fable or formula, will reflect the same changes.”

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“I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.”

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