Words matter. These are the best John Constable Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
The sky is the source of light in nature – and governs everything.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
Painting is but another word for feeling.
Landscape is my mistress – ’tis to her I look for fame.
Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness… there is no finish in nature.
Painting is but another word for feeling.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.
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 all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.
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.
