No Art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its … - Joshua Reynolds

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No Art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature, and of deviating from it, each for the accomplishment of its own particular purpose. These deviations, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

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About Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds, RA, FRS, FRSA (July 16 1723 – February 23 1792) was an English artist, a founder member of the Literary Club, and the first President of the Royal Academy.

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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing.

Nature is, and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible; and from which all excellencies must originally flow.

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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.

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