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