"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."

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Source : John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

John Constable

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“I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you fall in love with a work of art, youâ€™d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And Iâ€™m dying to meet the artist.”
“In our dreams we are always young.”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.201, Kodansha America
“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”
“When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.”
“Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.”
“Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.”
“It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.”

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