"J. M. W. Turner Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 23 April 1775. Died: 19 December 1851 | Painter | Printmaker | Watercolourist |

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

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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.

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Eye Imagination Addresses Ideas

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I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

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Hard Work Genius Mastery Hard

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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.

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Beautiful Art Select Painter Art Is Admirable

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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.

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Marriage Wedding Art Hate

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There Sketch Every Turn

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Painting Strange Business Is a

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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

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Architecture Painting Company Nose

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"J. M. W. Turner Quotes & Sayings

J. M. W. Turner

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

J. M. W. Turner

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

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

J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner Quotes & Sayings

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"J. M. W. Turner Quotes & Sayings

J. M. W. Turner

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

J. M. W. Turner

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

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

J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner Quotes & Sayings

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