Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye... — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention... — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share
