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Quotes from The Analysis of Beauty — William Hogarth

1697–1764 England

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

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

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.

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

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.

The Analysis of Beauty (1753)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Hogarth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.