Joshua Reynolds Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Foundation, Pleasure

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1906). “A Selection from the Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”

• 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”

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