Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
-- Joshua Reynold...
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
-- Joshua Reynold...
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. -- Joshua Reynold
If you have great talents, industry will improve them
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. -- Joshua Reynold...
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. -- Joshua Reynold
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists!
One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. -- Edgar Dega...
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
-- Edgar Dega...
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.
That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. -- Edgar Dega...
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times.
In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement. -- Edgar Dega...
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. -- Edgar Dega

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