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If I could find anything blacker than black I'd use it.

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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

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J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner
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Born: April 23, 1775
Died: December 19, 1851 (aged 76)
Bio: Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.
Known for:
  1. The Fighting Temeraire (1839)
  2. Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
  3. The Slave Ship (1840)

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