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William Hogarth - From the Critics category:
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. (William Hogarth)
William Hogarth - From the Critics category:
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. (William Hogarth)
William Hogarth - From the Drawing category:
Thus, as two or three lines are sufficient to shew the intention of an attitude, I will take this opportunity of presenting my reader ... with the sketch of a country-dance, in the manner I began to set out the design; in order to shew how few lines are necessary to express the first thoughts... (William Hogarth)
William Hogarth - From the Lines category:
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. (William Hogarth)
William Hogarth - From the Lines category:
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. (William Hogarth)
William Hogarth - From the Methodology category:
- b.1697 d.1764...
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. (William Hogarth)
William Hogarth - From the Time category:
-quotation in Greek written on the upper part of the frame on Time Smoking a Picture...
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. (William Hogarth)
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