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Top 25 John Constable Quotes (2024 Update)

John Constable Quote: “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.”

1. “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

John Constable Quote: “Painting is with me but another word for feeling.”

2. “Painting is with me but another word for feeling.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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?”

3. “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

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

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

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “We see nothing till we truly understand it.”

5. “We see nothing till we truly understand it.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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.”

6. “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

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

7. “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

John Constable Quote: “I don’t mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.”

8. “I don’t mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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.”

9. “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

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

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

— John Constable

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

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

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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.”

12. “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

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

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

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”

14. “I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

15. “I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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.”

16. “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

John Constable Quote: “A gentleman’s park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”

17. “A gentleman’s park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”

— John Constable

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

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

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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...”

19. “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

John Constable Quote: “Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.”

20. “Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?”

21. “My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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.”

22. “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

John Constable Quote: “Connoisseurs think the art is already done.”

23. “Connoisseurs think the art is already done.”

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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.”

24. “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

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

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

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “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...”

26. “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

John Constable Quote: “No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.”

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

— John Constable

John Constable Quote: “It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.”

28. “It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.”

— John Constable

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