J. M. W. Turner on Knowledge
Browse 5 quotations attributed to J. M. W. Turner, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to J. M. W. Turner and filed under "knowledge" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to J. M. W. Turner, entry #64274: "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."
Attributed to J. M. W. Turner, entry #101520: "My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there."
5 Quotes by J. M. W. Turner on Knowledge
"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."
"My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there."
"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 another."
"No, Mr. Williams, certainly not; if Mr. Drake has purchased a 'Turner', he ought to know it is a Turner; I was once silly enough to look at a picture that I was told had been painted by me, and I found myself soon after stuck up in a witness-box, giving evidence about it; I then said I'll never be so silly again."
"Dear Jones.. give you some account of.. ..the last sad ceremonies paid yesterday to departed talent gone to that bourne from whence no traveller returns. Alas, only two short months Sir Thomas followed the coffin of Dawe to the same place. We then were his pall-bearers. Who will do the like for me, or when, God only knows how soon; my poor father's death proved a heavy blow upon me, and has been followed by others of the same dark kind."