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 ConstableThe 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 ConstableI 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 ConstableThere has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
John ConstableVerse 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 ConstableThe 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 ConstableIt 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