William Hogarth (1697–1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.
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I know no such thing as genius; it is nothing but labor and diligence.
—William Hogarth
Topics: Genius
You know I won’t turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
—William Hogarth
Topics: Marriage, Husbands
Serious dancing is a contradiction in terms.
—William Hogarth
Comedy in painting as well as in writing ought to be allotted the first place.
—William Hogarth
Take my advice, and never draw caricature. — By the long practice of it I have lost the enjoyment of beauty. — I never see a face but distorted, and never have the satisfaction to behold the human face divine.
—William Hogarth
I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
—William Hogarth
Topics: Art
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
—William Hogarth
Topics: Envy
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