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Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Joshua Reynolds
Simplicity, Littles, Too Much
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.294

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

Joshua Reynolds
Simple, Simplicity, Monotony
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.89

Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.

Joshua Reynolds
Color, Two, Simplicity

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