Ocupation: Painter
Life: July 16, 1723 - February 23, 1792
Birthday: July 16
Death: February 23
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
source: sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.7
topic: Memories, Creativity, Littles, Inventing Things, Inventions And Inventors, New Inventions, Imagination And Creativity