William Shakespeare Quotes About Painting

• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Names, Mad

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides

• I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Faces, Painting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [150]

• Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

• And do so, love, yet when they have devised
  What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,
  Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized
  In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
  And their gross painting might be better used
  Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Might, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Sonnets and Narrative Poems”, p.101, Everyman's Library

• Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Sorrow, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”, p.134

• A thousand moral paintings I can show
  That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
  More pregnantly than words.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Moral, Painting

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Timon of Athens”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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