"A mere copier of nature can never produce…" — Joshua Reynolds
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
More Anything Great Quotes
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle
- Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will… — Mahatma Gandhi
- I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my… — Adolf Eichmann
- Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it… — William James
- I am sorry about the person who is not truly excited about his job. He will not only never truly… — Walter Chrysler
- I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies… — Socrates
- If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have… — Joel Osteen
- To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice. — Kelly Rowland
- No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down. — Chris Hadfield
- Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have… — Ernie J Zelinski