“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”
Quotes by Robert Baldwin Ross
“Telling one's friends to buy a book is a waste of time. One has to produce it from one's pocket and press it into their hands. The least one can hope for is that they'll leave it lying about in their drawing-rooms and talk as though they'd read it.”
“Don't paint your own period; paint your own country, your own thoughts, your own personality; paint the thoughts and the aspirations of your contemporaries, which should be for all time; not the clothes and fashions and follies that will soon past away.”
Robert Baldwin RossRobert Baldwin Ross was a British journalist, art critic, and art dealer, whose influence permeated the London literary and artistic scene from the mid-1890s until his untimely death in 1918. Best kno...