Joshua Reynolds Quotes
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I can recommend nothing better ... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.
— Joshua Reynolds
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
— Joshua Reynolds
Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.
— Joshua Reynolds
Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.
— Joshua Reynolds
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
— Joshua Reynolds
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
— Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.
— Charles Williams
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
— Joshua Reynolds
Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.
— Joshua Reynolds
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
— Joshua Reynolds
In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.
— Joshua Reynolds
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
— Joshua Reynolds
Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
— Joshua Reynolds
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
— Joshua Reynolds
It is vain for painters ... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.
— Joshua Reynolds
The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose
— Joshua Reynolds
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.
— Joshua Reynolds
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
— Joshua Reynolds
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.
— Joshua Reynolds
When Sir Joshua Reynolds diedAll Nature was degraded;
The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
And all his pictures faded. — William Blake
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
— Joshua Reynolds
Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.
— Joshua Reynolds
An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.
— Joshua Reynolds
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.
— Joshua Reynolds
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
— Joshua Reynolds
Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye ...
— Joshua Reynolds
