Art Quotations for Young Folks
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William Martin Conway, the 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), was an English art critic, politician and mountaineer. From 1884 to 1887 Conway was Professor of Art at University College, Liverpool; and from 1901 to 1904 he was Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge University.
Conway quotations follow.
Quotations
A photograph is almost always wrong . . . [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]Almost the pleasantest thing in the world is to be told a splendid story by a really nice person. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
Indeed I think the untrue stories are the best. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
My story-teller should not only draw the pictures while he talked, but he should paint them too. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
I have a friend who can make the loveliest folks and the funniest beasts and the quaintest houses and trees, and he really can't draw a bit . . . if he could draw better I should not like his folks and beasts half as much as I do. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
There is a delightful old picture painted on a wall away off at Assisi, in Italy, which shows St. Francis preaching to a lot of birds, and the birds are all listening to him and looking pleased—the way birds do look pleased when they find a good fat worm or fresh crumbs. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
A painter . . . can't paint every detail of things as they are in nature [and] . . . We don't all see the same things in the same way. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
A man will be noticing other things [that an woman]. His picture, if he painted one, would make those other things prominent. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
None of us sees more than certain features in what the eye rests upon, and . . . those features . . . we should paint. . . . We must make a choice, and of course we choose the features and details that please us. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
The really artistic souls. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
Sensitivity to beauty comes to some. It can be cultivated. TK
Back in the Middle Ages . . . folks had far less educated eyes . . . So they were satisfied . . . [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
If we are really to understand old pictures, we must begin by understanding the fancies of the artists who painted them. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
You must never . . . pretend to like what you don't like—:that is too silly. We can't all like the same things. [Sir Martin Conway, Bayp, ch. 1]
Literature
Bayp: Conway, Agnes Ethel and Sir Martin Conway. The Book of Art for Young People. London: A. and C. Black, 1909. Gutenberg ed., 2005.
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