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Joshua Reynolds Quotes
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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Author Profession: Artist
Nationality: English
Born: July 16, 1723
Died: February 23, 1792

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

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
Joshua Reynolds

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

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

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

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Abilities, Deficiency, Great, Improve, Industry, Moderate, Supply, Talents, Their, Them, Will
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Abilities, Deficiency, Great, Improve, Industry, Moderate, Supply, Their, Them, Will
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