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Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

John Constable

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John Constable
Age: 60 †
Born: 1776
Born: June 11
Died: 1837
Died: March 31
Landscape Painter
Painter
East Bergholt
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I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
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The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.
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My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? Tempest o'er tempest roll'd - still the darkness is majestic.
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I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.
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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 and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.
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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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Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
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I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.
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When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.
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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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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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Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.
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The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
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But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
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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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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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An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
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Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.
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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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