Author: Joshua Reynolds

Quotes

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

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

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

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

- Joshua Reynolds

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