William Rothenstein quotes

William Rothenstein quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”
-- William Rothenstein

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“Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...”
-- William Rothenstein

Source : Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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