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Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh painter Augustus John.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Augustus John

Augustus Edwin John was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.

Welsh - Painter | January 4, 1878 - October 31, 1961

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The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

Augustus John

Augustus John

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share. — © Augustus John

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

Augustus John

Augustus John

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