Robert Aris Willmott Quotes about Art

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It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.

Robert Aris Willmott

Beautiful, Art, Soul

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

Robert Aris Willmott

Art, Drama, Light

Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

Robert Aris Willmott

Art, Home, Science

Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.

Robert Aris Willmott

Art, Reflection, Years

Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.91

Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce.

Robert Aris Willmott

Art, Children, Eye

Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46