William Hogarth quotes
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“I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.”
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“I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.”
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“Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.”
-- William HogarthSource : 1753 The Analysis of Beauty
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“Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.”
-- William HogarthSource : William Hogarth (2013). “Engravings by Hogarth”, Courier Corporation
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“I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.”
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“The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.”
-- William HogarthSource : William Hogarth (1803). “Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored”
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“Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.”
-- William HogarthSource : William Hogarth (2015). “Aestheticism in Art”, p.77, Parkstone International
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“All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.”
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“I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.”
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“I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.”
-- William Hogarth
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