Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by J. M. W. Turner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English artist J. M. W. Turner.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colourisations, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

English - Artist | April 23, 1775 - December 19, 1851

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If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

J. M. W. Turner

There's a sketch at every turn.

J. M. W. Turner

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

J. M. W. Turner

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

J. M. W. Turner

I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.

J. M. W. Turner

Painting is a strange business.

J. M. W. Turner

It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

J. M. W. Turner

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

J. M. W. Turner

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

J. M. W. Turner

Light is therefore color.

J. M. W. Turner

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

J. M. W. Turner

Indistinctness is my forte.

J. M. W. Turner

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

J. M. W. Turner

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

J. M. W. Turner

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by J. M. W. Turner

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