Author: Joshua Reynolds

Quotes

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

- Joshua Reynolds

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

- 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.

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

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

- Joshua Reynolds

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

- Joshua Reynolds

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