Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-mi...nded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the pa...inter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A. Well, an old order is a violent one. This proves nothing. Just one more truth, one more... Element in the immense disorder of truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & unformed & unimportant drivel; & until the raw ingredients of a ...pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation & thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »