"Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint……" — John Constable
"Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy."
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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 Airy Quotes
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one of 75 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I…
— William Shakespeare
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like…
— Alexander Smith
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or…
— Samuel Johnson
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain…
— Paul Cezanne
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and…
— Eric Alterman
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
— Tori Amos
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that…
— Edmond Halley
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
— Gregory Benford
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