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The sound of water escaping f...

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 49 quotes

My picture [A Boat Passing a ...

My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.

John Constable 49 quotes

The output is far from smooth...

The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that plant operating under these conditions in the support role for wind will suffer: 1) reduced availability, 2) significantly reduced efficiency, and thus 3) higher emissions per MWh generated.

John Constable 49 quotes

The world is wide; no two day...

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 49 quotes

It is much to my advantage th...

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.

John Constable 49 quotes

He [the artist] ought to have...

He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.

John Constable 49 quotes

No man who can do any one thi...

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

John Constable 49 quotes

But You know Landscape is my ...

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 49 quotes

It is always my endeavour how...

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

John Constable 49 quotes

The climax of absurdity to wh...

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 49 quotes

The first impression and a na...

The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

John Constable 49 quotes

Whatever may be thought of my...

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 49 quotes

The sound of water escaping f...

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

John Constable 49 quotes

The world is wide. No two day...

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.

John Constable 49 quotes

The landscape painter must wa...

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.

John Constable 49 quotes

I never saw an ugly thing in ...

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 49 quotes

I know dock leaves pretty wel...

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

John Constable 49 quotes

Painting is a science, and sh...

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

John Constable 49 quotes

My art flatters nobody by imi...

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

John Constable 49 quotes

Nature is the fountain's head...

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

John Constable 49 quotes

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