Best 12 quotes of J. M. W. Turner on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Indistinctness is my forte.

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.

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

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

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.

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

My paintings bring me nothing but pain. The realisation is so immeasurably below the conception