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