British Art

[The Sanity Inspector]

I think it owing to the good sense of the English that they
have not painted better.
--Hogarth, 1761

Only here are colour and effect known and felt.
--Gericault, 1821

There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music,
except English painting.
--Heine, 1854

All the great English painters have the defect of
exaggeration.
--Delacroix

Dead generals and politicians standing, seated, riding, or
laid out flat.
--Alfred Gilbert, of English sculpture of his time

The English scuptor, far from neglecting detail like Sir
Thomas Lawrence, undertakes to depict with a hopeless exactitude
buckles, shoes, stockings, trousers, even the perruque of the noble
lord he is depicting on his tomb.
--Stendhal, 1824

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider
a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed
to tell.
--Whistler, 1890

Scottish art, like foreign art, so long as it remains at home,
has little interest for London, which, sure of its attractive power,
sits arrogantly still till art is brought to it.
--James L. Caw, c1900

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam

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We in England don't have movements if we can help it.
~Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) in Saturday Review,
-a comment on the wave of French Post -Impressionism

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