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Great Quotes by Joshua Reynolds
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
- A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
- Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended…
- The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly…
- Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and…
- The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and…
- Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are…
- The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all…
- 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…
- Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle…
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