Joshua Reynolds Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Inspirational, Success, Freedom

  Quoted in Time magazine, December 8, 1930.

• Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Wells, Labor, Denied

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

• Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (2009). “Seven Discourses on Art”, p.36, The Floating Press

• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mental Health, Pleasure

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

• In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Real, Jealous

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.209

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