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Joshua Reynolds

"The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds."

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.132

Joshua Reynolds

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“I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.”
“Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved.”
“I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around the world, close or far. In order to transform this information into art you have to add poetry. It's essential.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?”
“Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.”
“With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation.”
“No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.”

Source : Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.155, Open Road Media
“I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.”

"The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds."

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