An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

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.

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

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.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

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.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.

Dear Cake, You're AWESOME. That is all

There will be things I won't tell you ever, Then there will be things that you won't ever listen. Then...

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.