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J. M. W. Turner - From the Architecture category:
- Autobiographical Recollections by Charles Rob Leslie, Volume I, 1860...
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Beauty category:
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)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Colour category:
Light is therefore colour. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Colour category:
If I could find anything blacker than black I'd use it. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Interpretation category:
I did not paint... to be understood. I wished to show what such a scene was like. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Masters category:
-on Rembrandt...
No painter knew so well the extent of his own powers and his own weakness. Conscious of the power as well as the necessity of shade, he took the utmost boundaries of darkness and allowed but one-third of light, which light dazzles the eye thrown upon some favorite point, but where is judgement kept pace with his choice, surrounded with impenetrable shade. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Painting category:
Painting is a strange business. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Searching category:
There's a sketch at every turn. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Seeing category:
- excerpt of his explanation as to why his painted ships had no portholes...
My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Style category:
- The Life of J.M.W. Turner by Walter Thornbury, 1862...
...indistinctness is my forte. (J. M. W. Turner)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Truth category:
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)
J. M. W. Turner - From the Understanding category:
I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. (J. M. W. Turner)
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