J. M. W. Turner

"complete text in pdf of 'The life of J.M.W. Turner', Volume II, George Walter Thornbury; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862"

"Dear Hawkesworth, Mother Goose came to a rehearsal before Christmas day, having arrived on Saturday for the knife.. .Many thanks for the brace of pheasants and hares—by the same train—indeed, I think …"

"He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended."

"Then you will do away with the only social meetings we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one ano…"

"My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there."

"I never in my whole life could make a drawing like that; I would at any time have given one of my little fingers to have made such a one ."

"My dear Chantrey, - I intended long before this to have written: but even now very little information have I to give you in matters of Art, for I have confined myself to the painting department at Cor…"

"In our variable climate where the seasons are recognizable in one day, where all the vapoury turbulence involves the face of things, where nature seems to sport in all: her dignity and dispensing inci…"