Joshua Reynolds Quotes

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Life and art are inseparable.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

Art is a sense of magic.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Art is an investigation.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Art is significant deformity.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is truth.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.