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Joshua Reynolds

"An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists Â– in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages."

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244

Joshua Reynolds

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