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.

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

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.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

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.

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

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