Quotes by John Constable

John Constable

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

Aversion

Gentleman

Parks

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.

Drink

Mind

States

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

Artist

Education

Self

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom’s haunts among “sheep cotes and mills.” As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.

Escaping

Sheep

Water

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.

Imagination

Men

Mistress

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

Art

Done

Thinking

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.

Corn

Fields

Study

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.

Artist

Character

Powerful

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

Information

Looks

World

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.

Imagination

Looks

Reality

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Airy

Alive

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Anxiety

Art

Artist

Attitude

Availability

Aversion

Bears

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Boys

Canvas

Character

Children

Communication

Corn

Court

Dark

Darkness

Daylight

Dew

Different

Done

Doubt

Drink

Education

Emotion

Endeavour

Escaping

Essence

Eye

Fashion

Feelings

Feet

Fields

First Impression

Firsts

Flower

Forget

Gains

Gentleman

Glasses

Grateful

Hands

Horse

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Quotes by John Constable

John Constable

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

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.

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

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.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

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.

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

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