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. (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.

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