Genius Genius Quotes by William Hogarth

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William Hogarth has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
• I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
• I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than…
• All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
• Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
• The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye…
• I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my…
• Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

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