Joshua Reynolds

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

— Joshua Reynolds

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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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 #commences #dancing #distortion #gestures

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#great #mere #nature #never #produce

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

— Joshua Reynolds

#genius #longer #rules #taste #teach

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

— Joshua Reynolds

#been #few #own #purpose #taught

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

— Joshua Reynolds

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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

#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

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

— Joshua Reynolds

#only #orator #poor #shows #talk

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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