Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. – Joshua Reynolds
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it. – 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. – Joshua Reynolds
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
If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. – Joshua Reynolds
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. – Joshua Reynolds
