William Hogarth
William Hogarth
William Hogarth FRSAwas an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth10 November 1697
figure trying
All of were shocked, all of us were stunned. All of us are trying to figure out what do we do now?
leaf less obstinate turn
You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
judging painting found
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
lines length straight-lines
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
time artist great-art
Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
envy judging world
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
compassion cartoon four
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.
simplicity variety insipid
Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.
genius diligence labor
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.