John Constable Quotes

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• Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
• Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as…
• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective…
• The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the…
• The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
• There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
• 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 sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch…
• We see nothing till we truly understand it.
• The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that…
• Connoisseurs think the art is already done.
• The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
• I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often…
• I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
• Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.
• An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
• The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of…
• The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
• Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.
• When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light…

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