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William Hogarth
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“There is another Set of Gentry more noxious to the art than these, and those are your Picture-Jobbers from abroad, who are always ready to raise a great Cry in the Prints, whenever they think their Craft is in Danger; and indeed it is in their Interest to depreciate every English Work, as hurtful to their Trade, of continually importing Ship Loads of dead Christs, Holy Families, Madona's, and other dismal, dark Subjects, neither entertaining nor ornamental; on which they scrawl the terrible cramp Names of some Italian Masters, and fix on us poor Englishmen the Character of Universal Dupes.”
William Hogarth (1697–1764) first seen 1737 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article in the St. James's Evening Post (7 June 1737), quoted in The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume VI (July 1737), p. 385
“[T]he connoisseurs and I are at war you know; and because I hate them, they think I hate Titian—and let them!”
William Hogarth (1697–1764) said by 1764 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark to Hester Thrale, quoted in Hester Thrale, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson [1786] (1822), p. 109
“Any two opposite colours of the rainbow (eg yellow and blue) , form a third between them, thus imparting to each other their peculiar qualities . The sight of what they were originally is quite lost, and instead, a most pleasing green is found, which colour, nature has chosen for the vestment of the earth, and with the beauty of which the eye never tires.”
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“Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive.”
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“A great many people seem to delight most in what they least understand.”
William Hogarth (1697–1764) said by 1764 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On why our features sag, It is by the natural and unaffected movements of the muscles, caused by the passions of the mind, that every man's character would in some measure be written in his face, by the time he arrives at forty years of age.”
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“After the March to Finchley, the next print I engraved, was the Roast Reef of old England; which took its rise from a visit I paid to France the preceding year. The first time an Englishman goes from Dover to Calais, he must be struck with the different face of things at so little a distance. A farcical pomp of war, pompous parade of religion, and much bustle with very little business. To sum up all, poverty, slavery, and innate insolence, covered with an affectation of politeness, give you even here a true picture of the manners of the whole nation... By the fat friar, who stops the lean cook that is sinking under the weight of a vast sirloin of beef, and two of the military bearing off a great kettle of soup maigre, I meant to display to my own countrymen the striking difference between the food, priests, soldiers, &c. of two nations so contiguous, that in a clear day one coast may be seen from the other.”
William Hogarth (1697–1764) said by 1764 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Ireland, Hogarth Illustrated, Volume III (3rd edn., 1812), pp. 340-341