Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. T
  4. Thomas Gainsborough
  5. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality...

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Thomas Gainsborough
Time, Oil, Enemy
Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.