A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but … - Joshua Reynolds

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As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself.

Joshua Reynolds

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

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Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

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Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

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Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

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Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

Art, Differences, Principles, Attentive, Like, Nature

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