Jonathan Richardson: Paint

Jonathan Richardson was English painter. Explore interesting quotes on paint.

Jonathan Richardson: 10 quotes 1 like

“Painting is that pleasant amusement being one of the means whereby we convey ideas to each other.”

Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

Idea , Painting

“Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.”

Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

Way , Imagination , Painting

“The theatre gives us representations of things, and there we see a sort of moving, speaking pictures but they are transient whereas painting remains and is always at hand.”

Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

Painting

“The pleasure that painting as a dumb art give us, is like what we have from misic, its beautiful forms, vlour and harmony are to the eye what sounds and the harmony are to the ear.”

Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

Pleasure , Beauty , Art , Painting