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John Constable Quotes

English - Artist | June 11, 1776 - March 31, 1837

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.

Nature Beauty Humble Walk Man Mind

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Painting Feeling Word Another

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

Love Water Sound Old Things Rotten

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.

Nature Art Tree World Creation Days

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

Nature Spring Fountain Head Source

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.

Life Beautiful Light Perspective

Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.

Live Art Thought Belonging My Own

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

Nature Light Sky Everything Source

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

Landscape Look Fame Mistress Her

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

Nature Science Painting Inquiry Laws

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.

Nature Picture Down Forget Sketch

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

Nature Art Nobody Finish Imitation

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