A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator. (Joshua Reynolds)

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.

Joshua Reynolds

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