There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in… — John Constable Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree… — John Constable Copy Share Image
My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can… — John Constable Copy Share Image
An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed. — John Constable Copy Share Image
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature. — John Constable Copy Share Image
Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage,… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been… — John Constable Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas. — John Constable Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works… — John Constable Copy Share Image
It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception… — John Constable Copy Share Image
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. — John Constable Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make… — John Constable Copy Share Image
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should… — John Constable Copy Share Image
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