J. M. W. Turner Quotes

• It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Courage, Fearful

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• My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Jobs, Paint, Knows

  ""A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-1951"". Book by George Seferis, p. 105, 1999.

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• I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Hard Work, Blessing, Secret

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• Light is therefore color.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Light, Color, Energy

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• I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

  J. M. W. Turner

  People, Looks, Scene

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• I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Hard Work, Mastery, Genius

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• Indistinctness is my forte.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Style, Forte

  "The Life of J.M.W. Turner,: ... Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians". Book by Walter Thornbury, volume 2, p. 243, 1862.

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• It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Eye, Ideas, Imagination

  "The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Eric Shanes, p. 23, 2012.

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• If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Black, Use, If I Could

  "The life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A". Book by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, p. 296, 1879.

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• To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Beautiful, Art, Lines

  "The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Dennis Hugh Halloran, p. 75, 1970.

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• There's a sketch at every turn.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Turns

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• I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Marriage, Wedding, Art

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• Painting is a strange business.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Strange, Painting

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• Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Noses, Architecture, Painting

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