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The Analysis of Beauty

Name: The Analysis of Beauty
Author: William Hogarth

The Analysis of Beauty is a book written by the 18th-century artist and writer William Hogarth, published in 1753, which describes Hogarth's theories of visual beauty and grace in a manner accessible to the common man of his day.

“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.”

William Hogarth book The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

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

William Hogarth book 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.”

William Hogarth book 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.”

William Hogarth book The Analysis of Beauty

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

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