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However minutely labored the ...

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

I do not see in what manner p...

I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

Martial music has sudden and ...

Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended to move the softer passions, the notes imperceptibly melt into one another.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

A painter must compensate the...

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow...

Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

The great use of copying, if ...

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

The art of seeing nature, or,...

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

Let me recommend to you not t...

Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

A painter must not only be of...

A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

I am convinced that this is t...

I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do but perplex and puzzle the Student, when he compares them, or misguide him if he gives himself up to their authority; but bringing them under one general head, can alone give rest and satisfaction to an inquisitive mind.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

He who resolves never to rans...

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

What has pleased and continue...

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

The young mind is pliable and...

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

The mind is but a barren soil...

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

If you have great talents, in...

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

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

It is vain for painters... to...

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

I can recommend nothing bette...

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

And he who does not know hims...

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

I wish you to be persuaded th...

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

All the gestures of children ...

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

Joshua Reynolds 86 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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