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Joshua Reynolds

"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."

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"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."

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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

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"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

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"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

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"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."

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"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."

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"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
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"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
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"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."
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"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."
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"Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers."
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"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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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
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"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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