“Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.”
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits
Discourse no. 3; vol. 1, p. 57.
Discourses on Art
“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.”
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. <br class="br">François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm. <br class="br">Misattributed
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