Jonathan Richardson quotes

Painting is that pleasant amusement being one of the means whereby we convey ideas to each other. (Jonathan Richardson)
In picture we never die, never decay or grow older. View quote
Jonathan Richardson
Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way. View quote
Jonathan Richardson
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. View quote
Jonathan Richardson
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. View quote
Jonathan Richardson