Karl Pearson on Art
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Karl Pearson, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Karl Pearson, entry #66999: "y axiom runs as follows: "The whole is not identical with a part." This axiom leads us at once to a problem. What relation has the part to the whole?"
Attributed to Karl Pearson, entry #60422: "Our aesthetic judgment demands harmony between the representation, and the represented and in this sense science is often more artistic than modern art."
5 Quotes by Karl Pearson on Art
"y axiom runs as follows: "The whole is not identical with a part." This axiom leads us at once to a problem. What relation has the part to the whole?"
"Our aesthetic judgment demands harmony between the representation, and the represented and in this sense science is often more artistic than modern art."
"The old Dances of Death supplied what fails so much in our modern life—an artistic representation appealing to all classes of at least one experience common to the whole of humanity."
"If my view be correct, Erasmus Darwin planted the seed of suggestion in questioning whether adaptation meant no more to man than illustration of creative ingenuity; the one grandson, Charles Darwin, collected the facts which had to be dealt with and linked them together by wide-reaching hypotheses; the other grandson, Francis Galton, provided the methods by which they could be tested..."
"ear these points in mind, the association of Death and Chance, the notion of both as chaotic in their action, and their embodiment in a great artistic ideal—the Dance of Death—which gave so much colouring to mediaeval thought and life. We find this sombre notion everywhere—on the church walls, on the bridges, in the engravings ands, but as well in the sermons, the poetry, and the very turn of folk-sentiment."