Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.
Joshua ReynoldsPoetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.
Joshua ReynoldsIn portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.
Joshua Reynolds