Jonathan Richardson

In picture we never die,never decay or grow older

— Jonathan Richardson

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

— Jonathan Richardson

The pleasure that painting as a dumb art give us , is like what we have from misic, its beautiful forms, vlour and harmony are to the eye what sounds and the harmony are to the ear.

— Jonathan Richardson

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

— 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.

— Jonathan Richardson