Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I ought to respect myself for my friends' sake, and my children's. It is time, at fifty-six, to begin, at least, to know oneself, - and I do know what I am not, and your regard for me has at… — 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
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. — John Constable Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with… — John Constable Copy Share
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her… — John Constable Copy Share
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how… — John Constable Copy Share
