I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it.… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share
I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share
