4 Joshua Reynolds Quotes on Nature

Joshua Reynolds quotes on nature

4. A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

12. Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.

15. You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

16. The art of seeing Nature, or in other words, the art of using Models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.