Aversion Quote by John Constable Download Open image “A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.” — John Constable ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aversion Beauty Gentleman Nature Parks
“We are conditioned by the national parks to link beauty and environmental value, a prejudice that makes as much sense as thinking attractive people… — Charles Wohlforth Copy Share Image
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“In America, alas, beauty has become something you drive to, and nature an either/or proposition--either you ruthlessly subjugate it, as at Tocks Dam and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to… — Henry David Thoreau 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
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics,… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
