No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

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.

Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.