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.
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 ConstableA sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again โ in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind โ that which you were in at the time.
John ConstablePainting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
John ConstableThe output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our view is that plant operating under these conditions in the support role for wind will suffer: 1) reduced availability, 2) significantly reduced efficiency, and thus 3) higher emissions per MWh generated.
John Constable