John Constable
John Constable
John Constable, RAwas an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth11 June 1776
sky anxiety doubt
I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them...
mother essence light
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.
writing ambition thinking
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
slime world lord
The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
thinking mind trying
I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done - I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point.
men imagination mistress
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
glasses daylight littles
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
art light yellow
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.
fashion art may
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher...
mind corn fields
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.
feelings emotion painting
Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
views wind availability
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We see nothing till we truly understand it.
mind drink states
A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.