Author: 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

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

- John Constable

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

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

- John Constable

The sky is the source of light in nature - and governs everything.

The sky is the source of light in nature - and governs everything.

- John Constable

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

- John Constable

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

- John Constable

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.

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.

- John Constable

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