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.


Turner (around 1810), quoted in: Dennis Hugh Halloran (1970) The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner. p. 75

J. M. W. Turner Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...