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.

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.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.

How on earth did I get here, and where the hell are my pants?

Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

We are religious by nature.

As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Even now I don't consider myself skinny, but I have put a lot of hard work into my body over the years, and in the process, I've really learned to love myself.

Life should be fun not dumb