All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
From Joshua Reynolds
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
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.
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