I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

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.

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

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

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.