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

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

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

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

John Constable quotes: 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 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 ...

John Constable quotes: The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

John Constable quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

John Constable quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

John Constable quotes: Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

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

John Constable quotes: An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

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

John Constable quotes: Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

John Constable quotes: Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

John Constable quotes: A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

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

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

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

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

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