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Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

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The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

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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.

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The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

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The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

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The sky is the source of light in nature - and governs everything.

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My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

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Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

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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.

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I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: June 11th, 1776

Died: March 31st, 1837

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