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Jonathan Richardson l'Ancien est un peintre, un collectionneur d'art et un théoricien de l'art anglais de la fin du XVIIe et du début du XVIIIe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. janvier 1667 – 28. mai 1745
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Jonathan Richardson: Citations en anglais

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

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Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

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

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Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

“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.”

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Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

“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.”

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Jonathan Richardson

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

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