Roger Fry quotes
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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 FrySource : 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.”
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“First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.”
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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 FrySource : "Vision and Design".
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“Art is significant deformity.”
-- Roger FrySource : Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
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“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : A.C. Dixon (2016). “Through Night to Morning”, p.127, Solid Christian Books
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