J. M. W. Turner famous quotes

04-17-2025

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Black #Use
It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Courage #Fearful
I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Hard Work #Mastery #Genius
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
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
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
indistinctness is my forte.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Style #Forte
There's a sketch at every turn.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Turns
Painting is a strange business.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Strange #Painting
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Noses #Architecture #Painting
My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Jobs #Paint
Light is therefore color.
-- J. M. W. Turner

#Light #Color #Energy
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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