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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.<br />

In A. Tobias ‘Fire and Ice’ (1976) ch. 8<br />

6.32 Frederic Reynolds 1764-1841<br />

It is better to have written a damned play, than no play at all—it snatches a man from obscurity.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Dramatist’ (1789) act 1, sc. 1<br />

6.33 Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-92<br />

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)<br />

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities,<br />

industry will supply their deficiency.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)<br />

A mere copier <strong>of</strong> nature can never produce anything great.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)<br />

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)<br />

<strong>The</strong> whole beauty and grandeur <strong>of</strong> the art consists...in being able to get above all singular<br />

forms, local customs, particularities, and details <strong>of</strong> every kind.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)<br />

<strong>The</strong> value and rank <strong>of</strong> every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the<br />

mental pleasure produced by it.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 4 (10 December 1771)<br />

Genius...is the child <strong>of</strong> imitation.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)<br />

<strong>The</strong> mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only<br />

one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)<br />

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid, and works its effect, itself unseen.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)<br />

It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the<br />

resemblance <strong>of</strong> a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony <strong>of</strong> music.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 7 (10 December 1776)<br />

I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this<br />

place, might be the name <strong>of</strong>—Michael Angelo.<br />

‘Discourses on Art’ (ed. R. Wark, 1975) (10 December 1790)<br />

6.34 Malvina Reynolds 1900-78<br />

Little boxes on the hillside...<br />

And they’re all made out <strong>of</strong> ticky-tacky

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