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J.M.W. Turner Quotes



Quotes by J.M.W. Turner - (43 quotes)

Dr. Dale E. Turner - From the Dreams category:

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. (Dr. Dale E. Turner)

Dr. Dale E. Turner - From the Future category:

The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. (Dr. Dale E. Turner)

Dr. Dale E. Turner - From the Mistakes category:

To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. (Dr. Dale E. Turner)

Dr. Dale E. Turner - From the Planning category:

The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - Do Less, and do it Better. (Dr. Dale E. Turner)

Graham Turner - From the Success category:

At some point, we have to move from success to significance. If we don't manage that, life will be soulless and unfulfilling... (Graham Turner)

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)

Ted Turner - From the Activity category:

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Advice category:

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Ambition category:

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Boredom category:

The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Business category:

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Complaining category:

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Criticism category:

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Danger category:

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Environment category:

Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Fun category:

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Gender category:

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Genius category:

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through... (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Goals category:

-living by his father's words. . .
Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Humility category:

If I had any humility I would be perfect. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Importance category:

Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Intellect category:

The mind is just another muscle. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Life category:

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say.' (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Limitations category:

I just love it when people say I can't do something. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Money category:

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Religion category:

I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Selling category:

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Success category:

To succeed you have to be innovative. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Technology category:

Nuclear war would really set back cable. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Winning category:

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. (Ted Turner)

Ted Turner - From the Work category:

I see what keeps people young: work! (Ted Turner)

Walter J. Turner - From the Humanity category:

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arise strange and beautiful things. (Walter J. Turner)