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I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

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John Constable

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

Canvas, Feet, Six, Unless, Work
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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.

Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty, Light, Thing

Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.

Boyhood, Grateful, Horse, Lies, Lying, Stour

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

Class, Keys, Name, Organ, Sentiment, Sky

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which. . . has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

Canvas, Dew, Dews, Light, Painter, Perfection

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Descries, Eye, Mind, Present, Soul
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