The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

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.

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

I drove in last night, ' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

Meeting you was fate..Becoming your friend was a choice..But falling in love with you I had no control over.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.