Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Popular Topics
Inspiration, Home, Loves, Songs, I Miss You, Story, Feelings, Justice, Bear, House, Talent, Feeling, World, Angry, Looking For Love, Reality, Today, Oceans, Worry, Education, Body, Smile, Disco, Thinking, Music, Inspire, Gossip, Drama, Food, Important, Flower, Snows, Inspiring, Brain, Inspirational Life, Lifetime, Life, Possible, Success, Gold, Glory, Peace And Love, Think, Quiet, Pleasures Of Life, Private Life, English, Integrity, Alien, Movie Love
John Constable

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.

Drink, Mind, Nothing, Serve, Sketch, States
Same Author Quotes

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.

Attitude, Beautiful, Beauty, Light, Thing

Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.

Boyhood, Grateful, Horse, Lies, Lying, Stour

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

Class, Keys, Name, Organ, Sentiment, Sky

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which. . . has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

Canvas, Dew, Dews, Light, Painter, Perfection

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

Descries, Eye, Mind, Present, Soul
Similar Quotes