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A self-taught painter is one taught by a very ignorant person.
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He seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent, and so airy.
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The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
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A gentleman's park—is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.
Of Fonthill
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No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
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Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.
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Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.
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Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
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In Claude's landscape all is lovely—all amiable—all is amenity and repose;—the calm sunshine of the heart.
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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.
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It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes
Present the object, but the Mind descries.
We see nothing till we truly understand it.
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But You know Landscape is my mistress — 't is to her that I look for fame — and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
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It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.
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The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world.
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It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.
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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 painter and I am grateful.
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I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
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My observations on clouds and skies are on scraps and bits of paper, and I have never yet put them together so as to form a lecture, which I shall do.... next summer.
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My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?
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There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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Sept. 6 th, 1822, looking S. E. — 12 to 1 o'clock, fresh and bright, between showers — much the look of rain all the morning, but very fine and grand all the afternoon and evening.
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A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
June 11, 1776
Died:
March 31, 1837
(aged 60)
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