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I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

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 ...

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

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.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes
Present the object, but the Mind descries.
We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which ... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

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.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

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.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

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

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes ... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.