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Very 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more…
- 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…
- 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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