The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
We see nothing till we truly understand it.
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 never saw an ugly thing in my life.
I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.
I 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.