Joshua Reynolds Quotes about Purpose

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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Joshua Reynolds

Education, Teacher, Purpose

'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but one looked only for the general effect as produced by form, the other as produced by colour.

Joshua Reynolds

Views, Different, Purpose

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.67