You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.
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
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.
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.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. - Joshua Reynolds
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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…
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.
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.
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; n… - Joshua Reynolds
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; n…
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