"Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something……" — John Constable
"Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity."
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23 Quotes by John Constable
John Constable has 23 quotes on this site.
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Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
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Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not…
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may…
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The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of…
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The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
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There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as…
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When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget…
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A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again &…
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We see nothing till we truly understand it.
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The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly…
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done.
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The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a…
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More Butcher Quotes
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one of 92 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
— Lord Byron
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.
— Alex Comfort
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,…
— Charles Dickens
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They are most welcome. We will butcher them.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
— Jay Leno
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky,…
— Carl Sandburg
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When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure…
— Clint Eastwood
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Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Never throw a butcher knife in anger.
— Homer
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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
— George Bernard Shaw
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