Joshua Reynolds Quotes

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.