Art Quote by William Hogarth Download Open image “I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.” — William Hogarth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Good sense Owing Thinking
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time… — M. F. Husain Copy Share Image
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland. — David Russell Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the Renaissance that… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a… — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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