Joshua Reynolds Quotes
'A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.'
'A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.'
'Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius'
'Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.'
'The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.'
'The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.'
Born in Plympton, Devon
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