Author: Peter Quennell

Cites

• William Hogarth (1)
  • IN: The Wanton Chase (1980) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pursuing is the business of our lives... Every arising difficulty, that for a while attends and interrupts the pursuit, gives a sort of spring to the mind... Intricacy in form, therefore, I shall define to be that peculiarity in the lines, which compose it, that leads the eye a wanton kind of chase, and from the pleasure that gives it the mind, intitles it to the name of beautiful...
    FROM: Analysis of Beauty, (1753), NULL, UK