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General Quotes by Joshua Reynolds
- I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
- The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more…
- The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according…
- Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but…
- It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He…
- The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or…
- 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…
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