If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Joshua ReynoldsAll the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua ReynoldsThe value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Joshua ReynoldsHe who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
Joshua Reynolds