A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.Joshua Reynolds
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
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Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.
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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide