William Hogarth Quotes

• I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

  William Hogarth

  Judging, Painting, Found

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• I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

  William Hogarth

  Genius, Diligence, Labor

  "The Works of William Hogarth: Including the Analysis of Beauty and Five Days' Peregrination".

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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.

  William Hogarth

  Player, Men, Dumb

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• Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

  William Hogarth

  Simplicity, Insipid, Variety

  1753 The Analysis of Beauty

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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 Hogarth

  Eye, Grace, Different

  William Hogarth (1803). “Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth: And Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored”

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• Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

  William Hogarth

  Time, Artist, Great Art

  William Hogarth (2013). “Engravings by Hogarth”, Courier Corporation

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• All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

  William Hogarth

  Envy, Judging, World

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• Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

  William Hogarth

  Lines, Length, Straight Lines

  William Hogarth (2015). “Aestheticism in Art”, p.77, Parkstone International

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• I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

  William Hogarth

  Art, Thinking, Owing

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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.

  William Hogarth

  Compassion, Cartoon, Four

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