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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

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.”

May Changed Taste Reform

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.”

Soul Emotion Depends Taste Organization

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.”

Ifs Men Art Nature Design Taste Garden Appearance Gardening Entitled Footsteps Deviation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.”

Would Be Teach Genius Taste

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.”

Men Form Next Nations Greatness Taste Greatest Man

Author:Joshua Reynolds