Quotes by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds

British painter

Lived from: 1723 - 1792

Category: Artists Country: United Kingdom

Born: 16 july 1723 Died: 23 february 1792

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• Taste does not come by chance: it is a long and laborious task to acquire it.

  ― Sir Joshua Reynolds
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• If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

  ― Sir 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 from nothing.

  ― Sir Joshua Reynolds
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• Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.

  ― Sir Joshua Reynolds
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• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

  ― Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Subjects in these quotes:

• combination
• previously
• amusements
• deposited
• character
• gathered

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