William Hazlitt Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, World, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

• Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Poetry, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets”

• Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

  William Hazlitt

  Landscape Painting, Misanthropy, Resources

  William Hazlitt (1844). “Criticisms on Art”, p.233

• You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, Boredom, Painting

• Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

  William Hazlitt

  Morning, Health, Giving

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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