"The climax of absurdity to which art may……" — 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 of Boucher..."
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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 Absurdity Quotes
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
— Lord Byron
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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