Joshua Reynolds: Producer

Joshua Reynolds was English painter, specialising in portraits. Explore interesting quotes on producer.
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“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

Discourse no. 6; vol. 1, pp. 157-8.
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“Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.”

Joshua Reynolds

Discourse no. 6
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“The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”

Joshua Reynolds

Discourse no. 13; vol. 2, p. 136.
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“A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.”

Joshua Reynolds

Discourse no. 3, delivered on December 14, 1770; vol. 1, p. 52.
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“The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock: 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. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind of work is to be produced.”

Joshua Reynolds

Discourse no. 6; vol. 1, p. 158.
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