John Constable

I am very much in pursuit of the ideal.

I am very much in search of truth.

I am very much in earnest about my life.

I am very much in earnest about my happiness.

I am very much in earnest about my future.

I am very much in earnest about my destiny.

I am very much in earnest about my soul.

I am very much in earnest about my God.

I am very much in earnest about my religion.

I am very much in earnest about my faith.

The landscape of my own native country is to me the most beautiful in the world.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork... those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

Light - God's eldest daughter - is a principal beauty in a building.

I am anxious to see if there is any reality in my schemes of life and if I am not pursuing a shadow.

The sky is the chief feature of a landscape.

Every stroke I put on the canvas is a feeling.

Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God.

I have not sold a picture these three years.

The world is sadder for the death of Byron.