George Frederick Watts

I paint ideas, not things.

George Frederic Watts, (sometimes spelled George Frederick Watts) (1817-02-23 – 1904-07-01) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.

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• I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

External links

• Biography of Watts by W. Loftus Hare
• Watts' painting Hope
• BBC Restoration Appeal for the Watts Gallery
• The Watts Gallery, Compton
• Watts - 5 works in focus at Tate Online