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
men able different
No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
writing ambition thinking
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
slime world lord
The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
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.
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...
mind corn fields
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
sky anxiety doubt
I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them...
feelings emotion painting
Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
views wind availability
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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.
sheep escaping long
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.
ambition world should
It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.
art imitation court
My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?
corn fields study
Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.