Samuel Prout Quotes

• Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

  Samuel Prout

  Doe, Fancy, Sentimental

  Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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• Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

  Samuel Prout

  Simplicity, Curiosity, Mind

  Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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