
“Painting taught literature to describe.”
Source: Bumi Manusia
“Painting taught literature to describe.”
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).
RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911
In Search of History, Chapter I: War and Peace in Historical Perspectives, p. 1
Culture
"Fenestralia" http://books.google.com/books?id=YZMhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage, Mainly on the Air (1946), The Atlantic ( April 1944 http://books.google.com/books?id=5KAGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There+is+much+virtue+in+a+window+It+is+to+a+human+being+as+a+frame+is+to+a+painting+as+a+proscenium+to+a+play+as+form+to+literature+It+strongly+defines+its+content%22&pg=PA85#v=onepage)
1790s, Goya's announcement about 'Los Caprichos', 6 Febr. 1799
The Artist and the Shopkeeper
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit
“Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.”
Cette face de l’instrumentation est exactement, en musique, ce que le coloris est en peinture.
A travers chants (1862), ch. 1 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC01.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 5.
Introduction: What is Literature?, p. 2
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Context: Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.