Beholder Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Teacher, Eye, Miracle

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• It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Quality, Aesthetic

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.

  Peter M. Brant

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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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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• The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.

  Paul Klee

  Moving, Eye, Animal

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”

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• A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

  Mary Balogh

  Passion, Sunset, Soul

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

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• Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

  Haruki Murakami

  Views, Mind, Mountain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 29, 2016

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• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  Carolyn Wells

  Eye, Library, Wish

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• All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

  Maren Elwood

  Art, Emotional, Creation

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• Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Fashion, Ideas, Gentleman

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.

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• Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

  Tom Brokaw

  Eye, Facts, Bias

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• The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Light, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Sunset, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.242, Modern Library

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

  Mason Cooley

  Eye, Originality, Eye Of The Beholder

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• When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Clouds, Darkness

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• [A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Appreciation, Giving, Good Man

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  You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

  Milton Friedman

  Eye, Poverty, Cures

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Art, Eye, Color

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Eye, Years, History

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• Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Eye, Artist

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Moving, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Painting, Eye Of The Beholder

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• Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Power, Giving, Exaltation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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