Top 61 Hogarth Quotes
#1. Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.
Henry Fielding
#2. Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.
Rene Huyghe
#3. The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
David George Hogarth
#4. hands were always the worst giveaway in a pretend sleep attempt, sleeping hands being impossible to fake.
Ainslie Hogarth
#5. Because I'm evil, that's why. I'm an evil monster, two at once all the time and both evil. That's why.
Ainslie Hogarth
#6. I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
William Hogarth
#7. And she nodded and she nodded and she nodded until she was sobbing and she wasn't sure when the nodding turned into sobbing but it had and she'd buried her face into The Mother's neck and The Mother rubbed her back, her palm up and down and up and down.
Ainslie Hogarth
#8. The problem is, you can't fake dead hands. That invisible something that fills dead or sleeping hands, making them appear strange and inanimate, is impossible to imitate.
Ainslie Hogarth
#9. Soda pop and cotton candy and every face you've never noticed.
Ainslie Hogarth
#10. Just to warn you, I die at the end of all of this. So don't get too attached to me or anything.
Ainslie Hogarth
#11. Once you've spit something out, you can't eat it back up again. People don't forget.
Ainslie Hogarth
#12. From day one I was an inconvenience. But apparently I was a very cute baby so that helped my case a bit.
Ainslie Hogarth
#13. All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
William Hogarth
#14. Goddammit. I hate when crying just happens to you Like when you're being yelled at by someone or you're very nervous, there's a hostile takeover of your face and chest and all of a sudden you're a crying baby.
Ainslie Hogarth
#16. Time had her by the throat, and the more she squirmed the tighter it gripped.
Ainslie Hogarth
#17. But honestly, I don't really want to get to know most people anyway. Most people are boring assholes. Secretly I am better than everyone.
Ainslie Hogarth
#18. Why invite sorrow? Life is long enough to contain enough without asking for more.
M.C.A. Hogarth
#19. I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.
William Hogarth
#20. I excel at withholding. Resisting. Denying satisfaction.
Ainslie Hogarth
#21. Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that's what I'm hearing. They're coming to check me out, make sure I'm cool. Which I'm not, so they'll be disappointed.
Ainslie Hogarth
#22. Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep.
Ainslie Hogarth
#23. I know no such thing as genius, - genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
William Hogarth
#25. Eyeglasses and teeth: both breakable, valuable things that you have to carry with you all the time. Hanging there precariously like earrings without backings, threatening to fall out, chip off, crack to the quick because of some innocent nut or seed or beer bottle.
Ainslie Hogarth
#26. We must all guard against the human weakness of forming into tribes in order to lift our self-esteem. We can feel good about ourselves without having to find someone else to classify as inferior.
Steve Hogarth
#27. Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
William Hogarth
#28. The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.
William Hogarth
#29. She wanted to be as still as they, wanted to be drawn into the dirt and reborn a million times, at the same time, like each little blade of smooth grass.
Ainslie Hogarth
#30. You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.
Ainslie Hogarth
#31. Real smoker's fingers aren't scared of the burning embers; their fingers coexist with it.
Ainslie Hogarth
#32. The volcanic bubbling of everything in one pan made it very difficult to hear a crying child on the doorstep.
Ainslie Hogarth
#33. There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.
Burne Hogarth
#34. Normal and together, an impossible combination for us in the regular, real world.
Ainslie Hogarth
#35. No wonder serial killers liked to chop up women," Julia said. "They seem so much better when they're just bits and pieces.
Ainslie Hogarth
#36. Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
William Hogarth
#37. I'm the reasons that partners have to be assigned in school instead of chosen, or why teachers have to pick the teams in gym class instead of letting kids separate on their own.
Ainslie Hogarth
#38. I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
William Hogarth
#39. I wish that I really were all troubled and beautiful the way that some people are. Give myself the kind of beginning worthy of the Biography Channel.
Ainslie Hogarth
#40. To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.
Burne Hogarth
#41. I think you're strange, and what you did was a strange thing to do.
Ainslie Hogarth
#42. It's odd the way that things tend to stop looking like themselves when you take their motion away.
Ainslie Hogarth
#43. an attempt at effortlessness is a paradox at the very least.
Ainslie Hogarth
#44. Hers was the only face I could see right now, the only voice I could bear to hear.
Ainslie Hogarth
#45. She wanted to find a loose thread in the twilight. Pull it. See what shined so brightly behind it, through the snags.
Ainslie Hogarth
#46. Her body, the nucleic force of the furious scribble, was absolutely out of control: slipping and falling and flaking off, gaining much, losing little.
Ainslie Hogarth
#47. And actually I wouldn't want to suck the glaze off his eyes. I should leave it. Because it might be the glaze over his eyes that makes him think I'm so wonderful.
Ainslie Hogarth
#48. I didn't want to explode on you like that right away. I was really planning on giving you the cold shoulder until you cried. That would have been so much better.
Ainslie Hogarth
#49. parents are just as responsible for your death as they are for your birth. They set you on the tangent along which you inevitably die.
Ainslie Hogarth
#50. I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode ... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage ... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.
William Hogarth
#51. She could sense a mistake even before it happened, or perhaps she caused them with her accusatory eyes.
Ainslie Hogarth
#52. when I stare at myself for a really long time, I stop looking human. The way that a word starts to seem unreal as you repeat it, my face unravels.
Ainslie Hogarth
#53. The bathroom was the place to do strange, socially unacceptable things.
Ainslie Hogarth
#54. Books are like people. They can be beautiful on the outside and it's wonderful when they are, but what counts is the inside. And the inside of a book can be communicated in a dozen different ways, and cheaply enough that everyone can have access. And everyone should.
M.C.A. Hogarth
#55. I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's aisle in a burley-cue, drove a truck - then because I didn't like being pushed around, started pushing a pencil around.
Burne Hogarth
#56. Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.
Ian Hogarth
#57. Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen?
Has science killed God?
R.J. Hogarth
#58. but maybe, also, she doesn't know how to talk to us because she's so weird.
Ainslie Hogarth
#59. That's what fresh babies look like. You should see it. Horrific. Your vagina rips in two and this purpled, wrinkled creature comes flying out. And you're stuck with it.
Ainslie Hogarth
#60. You don't want to be pitied."
"Why not?"
"I don't really know, but I know that you don't want it. No one ever wants anyone else's pity. In the movies anyway.
Ainslie Hogarth
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