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Sir Joshua Reynolds Art Quotes
1723-1792
English Rococo Era Painter,
Stylistically influenced by the following painters and art movements - Sir Anthony Van Dyck Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Raphael, High Renaissance, Classical Greek and Baroque Art
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Art Quotations
A room hung with
pictures is a room hung with
thoughts. -Sir Joshua
Reynolds Quote
The real character of a man
is found out by his
amusements. -Sir Joshua
Reynolds Quote
If you have great talents,
industry will improve them:
if you have but moderate
abilities, industry will
supply their deficiency.
-Sir Joshua Reynolds Quote
When the artist is once
enabled to express himself
with some degree of
correctness, he must then
endeavor to collect subjects
for expression; to amass a
stock of ideas, to be
combined and varied as
occasion may require. --
Joshua Reynolds Quote
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The great use in copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning to colour; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the mould before you. An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention: and by
close inspection, and minute examination you will discover, at last, the manner of handling, the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their
tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated. - Joshua Reynolds Quote
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There is another caution which I wish to give you. Be as select in those whom you endeavor to please, as in those whom you endeavor to imitate. Without the love of fame you can never do anything excellent; but by an
excessive and undistinguishing thirst after it, you will come to have vulgar views; you will degrade your style; and your taste will be entirely corrupted. It is certain that the lowest style will be the most popular, as it falls within the compass of ignorance itself; and the vulgar will always be pleased with what is natural in the confined and misunderstood sense of the word. -- Joshua Reynolds Quote
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