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A collection of notable quotations from a variety of Early Modern Era individuals. See the Guide for more details.
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In picture we never die,never decay or grow older.
— Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1725
— Jonathan Richardson
Painting is that pleasant amusement being one of the means whereby we convey ideas to each other.
— Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1725
— Jonathan Richardson
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.
— Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1725
— 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.
— Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1725
— Jonathan Richardson
Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.
— Essay on the Theory of Painting, 1725
— Jonathan Richardson

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