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 from nothing. Joshua Reynolds More Quotes by Joshua Reynolds More Quotes From Joshua Reynolds An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention. Joshua Reynolds nice eye attention The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed. Joshua Reynolds giving ideas art A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind. Joshua Reynolds moments mind art There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds will go man thinking 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. Joshua Reynolds more nothing new memory
