91 Quotes by Joshua Reynolds

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye...

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements...

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, ’that it only put them out.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose.

Less coin, less care...

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.