If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Joshua Reynolds Read Quote
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds Read Quote
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. Joshua Reynolds Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. Joshua Reynolds Read Quote