Roger Fry Professions : Artist Born : December 14, 1866 Died : September 9, 1934 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Roger Fry 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 understanding real art 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 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 unity design art Art is significant deformity. Roger Fry deformity significant art First I have a think, and then I put a line around it. Roger Fry lines art thinking Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
