A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time. — John Constable Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
