William Hazlitt Quotes about Painting

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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

William Hazlitt

Tired, Boredom, Painting

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

William Hazlitt

Giving, Poetry, Painting

William Hazlitt (1859). “Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets”