Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by William Hogarth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British artist William Hogarth.

Last updated on November 13, 2024.

William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

British - Artist | November 10, 1697 - October 26, 1764

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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

William Hogarth

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

William Hogarth

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

William Hogarth

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

William Hogarth

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

William Hogarth

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

William Hogarth

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

William Hogarth

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

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

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

William Hogarth

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by William Hogarth

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