Painting consumes labour...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

WRITERS I-Z > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson

Painting consumes labour...

Vendor: WRITERS I-Z

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty.

Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 19 March 1776 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA