In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.
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.
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour. - Joshua Reynolds
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.
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