19thc critics

Courbet (The Gleaners, Realism)

Living art

Ruskin 1

Go to nature, rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing

Ruskin 2

Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational form of architecture

Baudelaire 1

Since all centuries and all people have had their own form of beauty, so inevitably we have ours

Baudelaire 2

Epic side of modern life

Gaugin 1

Don’t copy too much after nature

Gaugin 2

I want to create only simple art. To immerse myself in virgin nature

Charles Dickens

A hideous, wry-necked, red headed, blubbering boy in a bed gown

Maddox-Brown (plant seller)

A ragged wretch who has never been taught to work

Rodin (The Kiss)

A sculpted knick knack

Rodin 2

‘ugly’ in art means anything false… all that is soulless or lacking in truth

Rodin 3 (Michelangelo)

It is Michelangelo who has freed me from academic sculpture

Lipton

Mythic scaffolding

Zola

resembles a delicious courtesan, but not of flesh and blood - that would be indecent - but made of a sort of pink and white marzipan

Gilbert Scott [Designed ciborium]

On principles of the ancient shrines

Queen Victoria

In the common sense of the word

Gaston Leroux

in Paris our lives are one masked ball

morris

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

Guimard

[architecture] contains within itself every one of the other arts, without exception

Holman Hunt (porcelain tablets showed remaining paint)

We knew how impossible it was to give the purity and variety of nature’s hues if we allowed our pigments to get sullied

Holman Hunt 2

I tried to put aside the loose irresponsible handling to which i had been trained

James Rubin 1

Is a far more sexually appealing work, despite its mythological guise

James Rubin 2

Manet’s demythologising of the female nude was foremost a timely reminder of modern realities

Whistler (leading proponent of Credo ‘art for art’s sake’) 1

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell

Whistler 2

The artist is born to pick and choose