I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature than with her; or as they express themselves, 'that it only put them out.


The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight (ed. 1797)

Joshua Reynolds Quotes

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature...

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature...

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature...

I have heard painters acknowledge, though in that acknowledgment no degradation of themselves was intended, that they could do better without nature...