Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes


Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?


Citations

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. The Intellectual Life. Macmillan and Co., 1873, p. 326.

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Born: September 10, 1834
  • Died: November 4, 1894
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Artist

Philip Gilbert Hamerton was a British artist, art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts. He was an important theorist of the English Etching Revival.