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Painting: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight Adonis, painted by a running brook: And Cytherea, all in sedges hid; Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving sedges play with wind. We'll show thee Io, as she was a maid; And how she was beguiled and surpris'd, As lively painted as the deed was done. Or Daphne, roaming through a thorny wood; Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds; And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn T. S. IND. 2. Painting is welcome, The painting is almost the natural man; For since dishonour trafficks with man's nature,. He is but outside: These pencil'd figures are— T. A. i. 1

Ev'n such as they give out. It is a pretty mocking of the life.— T. A. i 1

I'll say of it It tutors nature: artificial strife— T. A. i. 1

Lives in these touches, livelier than life... How this grace Speaks his own standing! what a mental power This eye shoots forth! How big imagination Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret.— T. A. i. 1

Timon. Wrought he not well that painted this? Apemantus.-He wrought better that made the painter. and yet he's but a filthy piece of work.— T. A. i. 1