Other related topics at: Arts 134. Painting; Sculpture "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. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot." Boswell: Life Link 1,046. Accuracy; Imagination; Painting "To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy." Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets) Link 1,711. Painting "Whoever is delighted with his own picture must derive his pleasure from the pleasure of another. Every man is always present to himself, and has, therefore, little need of his own resemblance, nor can desire it, but for the sake of those whom he loves, and by whom he hopes to be remembered." Johnson: Idler #45 (February 24, 1759) Link 1,712. Painting "Genius is chiefly exerted in historical pictures; and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of his subject. But it is in painting as in life; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in reviving tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead." Johnson: Idler #45 (February 24, 1759) Link