Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

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.

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

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.

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

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

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.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

God’s house will be happy because Christ will be there.

So we are steaming along without any landmark

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.