Joshua Reynolds Quotes
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. - Joshua Reynolds
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. A favorite of Thomas Alva Edison.
- Joshua Reynolds
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
- Joshua Reynolds
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
- Joshua Reynolds
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
- Joshua Reynolds
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
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
- Joshua Reynolds
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
- Joshua Reynolds
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
- Joshua Reynolds
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