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.

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.

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.

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

The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.

Don’t allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation.

And I don't want the world to see me, Cause I don't think that they'd understand.When everything's made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

We have the time, we have the knowledge, and we have the wisdom to move out into the world with love and power.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.