If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

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Self-improvement Personal development

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Joshua Reynolds

Source

Discourses on Art

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse II." 11 Dec. 1769, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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