J. M. W. Turner

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

— J. M. W. Turner

I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't…

— J. M. W. Turner

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives…

— J. M. W. Turner

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

— J. M. W. Turner

It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the…

— J. M. W. Turner

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the…

— J. M. W. Turner

Light is therefore color.

— J. M. W. Turner

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

— J. M. W. Turner

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

— J. M. W. Turner

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

— J. M. W. Turner

indistinctness is my forte.

— J. M. W. Turner

There's a sketch at every turn.

— J. M. W. Turner

Painting is a strange business.

— J. M. W. Turner

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

— J. M. W. Turner