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Any two opposite colours of the rainbow (eg yellow and blue), form a third between them, thus imparting to each other their peculiar qualities. The sight of what they were originally is quite lost, and instead, a most pleasing green is found, which colour, nature has chosen for the vestment of the earth, and with the beauty of which the eye never tires.

William Hogarth

On why our features sag, It is by the natural and unaffected movements of the muscles, caused by the passions of the mind, that every man's character would in some measure be written in his face, by the time he arrives at forty years of age.

William Hogarth

Experience teaches us that the eye may be subdued and forced into forming and disposing of objects even quite contrary to what it would naturally see them, by pre judgement of the mind or some other persuasive motive.

William Hogarth

A great many people seem to delight most in what they least understand.

William Hogarth

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

William Hogarth

William Hogarth

William Hogarth

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Born: November 10, 1697

Died: October 26, 1764 (aged 66)

Bio: William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

Known for:

Beer Street and Gin Lane
A Harlot's Progress (1732)
The Shrimp Girl (1745)
The Gate of Calais (1748)

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