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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.”

Doe Moments Change Appearance Landscape Vary True Value

Book:Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894

Source: Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894

“Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear at one moment from the point of view of a single spectator. This is the effect of perspective. Nothing of this sort existed in prehistory.”

Knows Art Moments Reality Views Effects Perspective Appearance Point Of View Spectators Prehistory

Book:The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art

Source: The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art

“Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.”

Moments Film Concepts Asking Structure Appearance Revolutionary Flash Electronics Intoxicated Utilizing Polaroids

Author:Edwin Land

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”

Men Moments Artist Certain Effort Objects Appearance

Author:Edgar Degas

“the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.”

Ifs Giving Moments Feelings Might Lasts Turns Race Crosses Ancient Appearance Lovely Spots Islands Easter Rite Massachusetts Forsaken Ageless Stonehenge Gloucester Easter Island

Author:Marsden Hartley

“Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.”

Moments Law Games Force Chance Secret Music Jazz Appearance Technique Organized Disorder Obscure Conform Orchestra Spurs Obeying Virtuoso Spur Of The Moment

Author:Wanda Landowska