Thomas Gainsborough Quotes

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  • We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

    Genius   Mourn  
    Nicola Kalinsky, Thomas Gainsborough (1995). “Gainsborough”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited
  • Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

  • Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

    Letter to William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in "The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough", ed. Mary Woodall, 1961, September 14, 1767.
  • 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.

    Time   Oil   Enemy  
    Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14
  • Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

    Thomas Gainsborough (1963). “Letters”
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