William Hogarth citations

“Any two opposite colours of the rainbow (eg yellow and blue), form a third between them, thus imparting to each other their peculiar qualities. The sight of what they were originally is quite lost, and instead, a most pleasing green is found, which colour, nature has chosen for the vestment of the earth, and with the beauty of which the eye never tires.”

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William Hogarth livre The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

“A great many people seem to delight most in what they least understand.”

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William Hogarth livre The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

“On why our features sag, It is by the natural and unaffected movements of the muscles, caused by the passions of the mind, that every man's character would in some measure be written in his face, by the time he arrives at forty years of age.”

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William Hogarth livre The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

“Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive.”

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William Hogarth livre The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)