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.


Discourse no. 13, delivered on December 11, 1786; vol. 2, p. 134. - Discourses on Art

Joshua Reynolds Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...