"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."

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Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)

Joshua Reynolds

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“I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.”
“Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.”
“I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win.”
“You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.”
“I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.”
“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
“I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.”
“The most important thing people can do is refuse to have any resistance to staying connected to their source. People resist being able to attract abundance into their lives.”

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