Jonathan Richardson
Jonathan Richardson (1665 â 1745), sometimes called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son, was an English artist, collector of drawings, and writer on art, working almost entirely as a portrait-painter in London
Quotes
[edit]Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)
[edit]- Painting is that pleasant amusement...being one of the means whereby we convey our ideas to each other.
- p. 2
- Words paint to the imagination, but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.
- p. 3
- The theatre gives us representations of things..., and there we see a sort of moving, speaking pictures, but these are transient; whereas painting remains and is always at hand.
- p. 4
- The pleasure that painting as a dumb art give us, is like what we have from music; its beautiful forms, colours and harmony are to the eye what sounds and the harmony...are to the ear.
- p. 5
- In picture we never die, never decay, or grow older.
- p. 7
