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May Quotes by Joshua Reynolds
- 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…
- A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the…
- One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is…
- However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or…
- It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
- 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…
- 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…
- By leaving a student to himself he may... be led to undertake matters above his strength, but the trial will at least have this advantage:…
- 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…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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