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Painting is that pleasant amusement...being one of the means whereby we convey our ideas to each other.

— Jonathan Richardson Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

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Words paint to the imagination, but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.

Essay on the Theory of Painting (1725)

In picture we never die, never decay, or grow older.

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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)

The theatre gives us representations of things..., and there we see a sort of moving, speaking pictures, but these are transient; whereas painting remains and is always at hand.

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