Best quotes by John Constable on Nature

Checkout quotes by John Constable on Nature

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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

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

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• ‟ 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.

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

  - John Constable