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.

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.