Joshua Reynolds on Love
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Joshua Reynolds, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joshua Reynolds, entry #29090: "A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator."
Attributed to Joshua Reynolds, entry #188028: "If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter would be more apt to succeed; but it is not the eye, it is the mind, whic…"
2 Quotes by Joshua Reynolds on Love
"A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator."
"If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art, there is no doubt, indeed, but the minute painter would be more apt to succeed; but it is not the eye, it is the mind, which the painter of genius desires to address; nor will he waste a moment upon those smaller objects, which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart."