Able Quote 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.

— John Constable

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

— John Constable

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

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

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

— John Constable

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

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

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

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

— John Constable

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

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