WILLIAM HOGARTH

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

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

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.

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.

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

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

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

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 in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

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

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

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

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 in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

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.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

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

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.