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Own Quotes by Joshua Reynolds
- Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
- Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will…
- He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he…
- 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…
- No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,…
- I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend…
- 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:…
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov