Joshua Reynolds Quotes on Nature
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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.
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Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.
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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.
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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.