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Painter Quotes by John Constable
- There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
- 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.
- 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…
- I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.
- Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in…
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