The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists i… - Joshua Reynolds
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists i…
- Joshua Reynolds
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. - Joshua Reynolds
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. - Joshua Reynolds
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriche… - Joshua Reynolds
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriche…
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fai… - Joshua Reynolds
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fai…
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. - Joshua Reynolds
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye. - Joshua Reynolds
Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers. - Joshua Reynolds
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much. - Joshua Reynolds
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
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