Roger Fry Quotes

• Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

  Roger Fry

  Christian

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• No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Real, Understanding

  Roger Fry, Christopher Reed (1996). “A Roger Fry Reader”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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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.

  Roger Fry

  Eye, Artist, Hands

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• First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Thinking, Lines

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• None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Design, Unity

  "Vision and Design".

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• Art is significant deformity.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Significant, Deformity

  Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)

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