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Joshua Reynolds was an influential English painter, recognized for his portraits and landscapes. Born on July 16, 1723, and passing away on February 23, 1792, Reynolds played a significant role in the development of the English portrait school and is often considered the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts.

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Famous Joshua Reynolds Quotes

“I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.”

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Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”

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Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.”

Art Science Teach Teaching Industry Genius Excellence Supposed To Be Acquire

Book:Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy

“Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.”

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Book:Seven Discourses on Art

Source: Seven Discourses on Art