John Constable
John Constable
John Constable, RAwas an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth11 June 1776
slime world lord
The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
hands together gains
It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage.
writing ambition thinking
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
flower eye dark
I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.
sky class names
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.
ugly-things saws ugly
I never saw an ugly thing in my life.
reality imagination looks
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.
trying firsts forget
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.
views wind availability
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feelings emotion painting
Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
communication talking humanity
Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.
fashion art may
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher...
sky light source
The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.
glasses daylight littles
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.