When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.


As quoted in Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963), p. 40 - from Letters

John Constable Quotes

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.