Himself confessed The enormity: quoth Philip, "When I pressed The painter to acknowledge his abuse Of artistry else potent--what excuse Made the infatuated man?
Ay, but such exercise begins too soon, Concludes too late, demands life whole and sole, Artistry being battle with the age It lives in!
All fume and fret Of artistry beyond this point pursued Brings out another sort of burnish: yet Always the ingot has its very own Value, a sparkle struck from truth alone.
But he should not have permitted an untimely end even to such a man: it is bad artistry to overweight your dice.
It would be hard to improve upon the accuracy of that description or the artistry with which it is expressed.
It pleased some by its reality, its artistry and its social ideas; it pleased the Slavophils by its truth to life and its smell of Russia.
Here he wrote his only novel in prose, The Hero of Our Times, as great a piece of artistry as anything that he did in poetry.
Above all his gifts, he was an artist in words, his ear being most sensitively attuned and his taste pure and refined for the delicate artistry of the poet's work.
John, wrought with beautiful artistry for casting in bronze; but he died at the age of thirty-five, and the world was robbed of an excellent and valiant craftsman.
Whereupon, seeing theartistry of Michelagnolo, he was amazed: and then, being asked by Michelagnolo what he thought of that figure, Francia answered that it was a most beautiful casting and a fine material.
Anything that may be said about absence of artistry in the use of words, may be said as to absence of artistry in building of the words into sentences, of the sentences into paragraphs and pages.
Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.
If this was the case, their pretense carried conviction, by virtue of the artistry of their politeness.
Artistry and politeness, Janet concluded, though they might be minor virtues, were not the minor virtues of an industrial republic.
These and other details of sartorial artistry were probably lost on Janet, but she was sensible enough of the general effect to surmise that her employer had dressed himself to conquer.
It follows that the best story in point of executive artistry is the story which realizes most fully the inherent capacity of its matter to interest.
Conscious artistryis impossible unless the author knows definitely what he is striving to express.
Artistry is simply the faculty to realize to the utmost the inherent power of one's conceptions, and the artistry of any fiction lessens as the appeal of the story for a reader diminishes.
If a story demands space, space it must have, but the essence of literary power and artistry is to write with the utmost brevity and pungency compatible with adequate expression.
If the writer strives merely to tell the story, the labor of writing will be slight; if he strives to write with artistry and power, it will be infinitely great.
Moreover, I cannot admit that Maupassant's best work is equal in rounded artistry and appeal to that of others who have chosen to write less barely and mathematically.
Henceforth, his insolence and artistry declined, and, though to the last there were intervals of grandeur, he spent the better part of fifteen years in the commission of crimes, whose very littleness condemned them.
With a perpetual anxiety to avoid the nippers his artistry dwindled.
If Gilderoy was unsurpassed in brutality, he fell immeasurably below Hind in artistry and wit, nor may he be compared to such accomplished highwaymen as Mull Sack or the Golden Farmer.
Born with a consummate artistry tingling at his finger-tips, how should he escape the compulsion of a glorious destiny?
Just as he chose his dramatic subjects with some felicity to reveal his many-sided nature, so he used the sonnets with equal artistry to discover that part of himself which could hardly be rendered objectively.
And to find that in Shakespeare's agony and bloody sweat he ignores the rules of artistry is simply what might have been expected, and, to some of us, deepens the personal interest in the drama.
It is nothing short of captivating artistry of first excellence, and we are familiar with nothing that equals it outside the Negro syncopation which we now know so well, and from which we have borrowed all we have of native expression.
Portraits were likewise "arranged" through the artistry of the painter in matters of decoration for the great halls of the periods in which they were hung.
All true artistry is self-contained and never relies upon outer physical stimulus or inward extravagance of phantasy, or of idiosyncrasy.
Artistry of this sort will be welcomed anywhere, if only that we may take men seriously who profess seriousness.
Too much artistry for that; too much of eye to let heart rule.
It is of a perfect piece with the great artistry of all time.
Mr. Watts's feeling for satirical make-up is a fine shade of artistryin itself.
You will travel over many continents to find a more beautifully synthesized artistry than our redman offers.
Henry James and Mr. Kipling exhibit, in their several ways, extraordinary mastery of point of view; and their works may very profitably be studied for examples of this special phase of artistry in narrative.
And Hawthorne the artist is so delicate in his sensitive and loving presentation of the beautiful, so masterly both in structure and in style, that his work, in artistry alone, is its own excuse for being.
Bilac’s seeming recantation at the end was the result of just such a clash between artistry and harsh reality.
There are not many sonnets in the poetry of Olavo Bilac, who so generously received her, to match the sheer artistry of her Dance of the Centaurs, her Argonauts, her Impassive Muse.
For sheer artistry it ranks with Bilac’s most successful accomplishments.
Although their descendants also made and used baskets, they never achieved the fine quality and artistry of the early Basketmakers.
I think he may also have felt, perhaps subconsciously, an obligation to repay, by rescuing their work from oblivion, the men and women of long ago whose artistry and manual skills gave him such keen and lasting pleasure.
How does it compare with Pope's poems in artistry and power?
Most characteristic, perhaps, is his exquisite artistry (in which he learned much from Keats).
There is nothing contradictory in the variety and multiformity of Nature, whether loose and at large in Nature's unmapped geography, or garnered and assorted and heightened by man's artistry in the small proportions of a perfect garden.
Now through a dismaying and improbable chain of events he must turn this work of artistry against a fellow human being.
This series of twelve short stories depict the life of an English touring actor with a quiet artistry of humor suggestive of Leonard Merrick's best work.
I don't believe their behaviour is a bit more affected by their artistry than it would be by a knowledge of the higher mathematics.
There is an artistry of life as well as of literature, and the perfect knighthood of Sidney is no less precious to the world than the genius of Spenser.
These glimpses into a world of artistry cannot have been other than stimulating to the young prince.
Whereas in the porcelain there is delicate artistry and finesse, in the faience there is breadth and vivacity of colour schemes.
Even have I had to hide my little artistry in my profession because, had I exploited it, it would have told my enemies where they could find me.
Riches, possibly, would here reward her father for his artistry upon the flute, and luxuries surround them both, in consequence.
Of all political and national institutions of this kind Ollav Fola was regarded as the traditional founder, just as Goban the Smith was the founder of artistry and handicraft, and Amergin of poetry.
