"The world is rid of Lord Byron, but……" — John Constable
"The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains."
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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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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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I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed…
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Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town -…
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Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money…
— Jimmy Demaret
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To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then…
— D. J. Enright
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I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and…
— Leigh Steinberg
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do…
— Bernard Lown
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I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
— John Clare
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Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to…
— Chad Pennington
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
— Freeman Dyson
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Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no…
— Jonathan Bowden
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