| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | He best can paint them who shall feel them most. |
| Alexander Pope | Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. |
| Augustine Birrell | As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. |
| Alexander Pope | He best can paint them who shall feel them most. |
| Alexander Pope | Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. |
| James Thomas Fields | "Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors." |
| John Ruskin | Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. |
| John Ruskin | If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof. |
| John Singer Sargent | Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. |
| Mrs Anna Jameson | He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away. |
| Oliver Cromwell | Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. |
| Thomas Hood | Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What? |
| William Mason | Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes. |
| Horatius Flaccus | He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. |
| Joseph Addison | And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. |
| John Dryden | Hard features every bungler can command, To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Pictures must not be too picturesque. |
| Thomas Carlyle | If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing Auctioneer. |
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