Quotes About John Constable

#1. Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

John Constable

#2. 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.

John Constable

#3. I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

Kumail Nanjiani

#4. 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

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

John Constable

#6. 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.

John Constable

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

John Constable

#8. I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.

George Stroumboulopoulos

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

John Constable

#10. 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

#11. We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.

John Constable

#12. 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.

John Constable

#13. Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

John Constable

#14. The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

John Selden

#15. 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

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

John Constable

#17. If Judas Iscariot were alive, and a woman, and attending formal functions, wearing this dress would still represent a disproportionate punishment for his sins." "Her

Daniel O'Malley

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

John Constable

#19. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.

Donald Trump

#20. Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

Herman Melville

#21. The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt

#22. Not all 'schooling' is 'education,' and not all 'education' is 'schooling'.

Milton Friedman

#23. 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

#24. 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.

John Constable

#25. 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

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

John Constable

#27. We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

Chita Rivera

#28. The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

Gerald Durrell

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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 ...

John Constable

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

John Constable

#33. 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.

John Constable

#34. 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.

John Constable

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

John Constable

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

John Constable

#37. I'm a pastor of a local church. I'm not a televangelist. I've never had a televised program. I'm a pastor. A pastor's role is to care and comfort, encourage, teach, and everything that I do, even when I meet with world leaders, is from a pastor's heart.

Rick Warren

#38. He took a money clip out of his pocket, pulled off several bills. "Take it. It'll save you time.

J.D. Robb

#39. Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

John Constable

#40. Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

Sandra Cisneros