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Painter Quotes by Joshua Reynolds
- I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her;…
- 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…
- 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…
- A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like…
- If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the…
- Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who…
- From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself,…
- 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…
- It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
- 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…
- 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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