Joshua Reynolds Quotes
The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.
Quotes to Explore
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A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.
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The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter
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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art.
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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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 the poet or historian, expatiate.
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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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Words should be employed as the means, not as the end: language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
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It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.
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The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.