Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

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.

Feeling old? Remember, you will never again be as young as your are today.

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?