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Joshua Reynolds Quotes

Joshua Reynolds Quotes

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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Character, Real, Found

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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Anything, Nature, Mere

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

Thoughts, Pictures, Room

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua Reynolds

Children, Master, Dancing

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds

Genius, Rules, Longer

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

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
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Industry, Improve, Talents

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds

New, Nothing, Come

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Joshua Reynolds

Talk, Poor, Shows

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
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Greatest, Nation, Next

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

Art, Value, Labor

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

Joshua Reynolds

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For the Australian rugby league footballer, see Josh Reynolds.

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Self-portrait
Birth name	Joshua Reynolds
Born	16 July 1723 Plympton
Died	23 February 1792 (aged 68) London
Nationality	English

Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. King George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.

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