There's a sketch at every turn. J. M. W. Turner More Quotes by J. M. W. Turner More Quotes From J. M. W. Turner It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. J. M. W. Turner fearful courage 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 hard-work secret blessing I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. J. M. W. Turner scene people looks 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 eye imagination ideas If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it. J. M. W. Turner if-i-could black use Light is therefore color. J. M. W. Turner color light energy 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 lines beautiful art My job is to paint what I see, not what I know. J. M. W. Turner paint knows jobs I know of no genius but the genius of hard work. J. M. W. Turner mastery genius hard-work 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 wedding marriage art Indistinctness is my forte. J. M. W. Turner forte style Painting is a strange business. J. M. W. Turner painting strange Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. J. M. W. Turner painting architecture noses
