Joshua Reynolds on Art
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Joshua Reynolds, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joshua Reynolds, entry #67276: "What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again: hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immoveable foundation they must ever stand."
Attributed to Joshua Reynolds, entry #120294: "It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight."
4 Quotes by Joshua Reynolds on Art
"What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again: hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immoveable foundation they must ever stand."
"It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight."
"Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies, which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire."
"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 painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have."