• The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

    Joshua Reynolds: The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”