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Roger Fry Quotes

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Roger Fry
Christian

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 Fry
Art, Real, Understanding
Roger Fry, Christopher Reed (1996). “A Roger Fry Reader”, p.362, University of Chicago Press

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

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Roger Fry
Art, Thinking, Lines

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 Fry
Art, Design, Unity
"Vision and Design".

Art is significant deformity.

Roger Fry
Art, Significant, Deformity
Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)

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