Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.
I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
The sky is the source of light in nature - and governs everything.
Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.
My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... There is no finish in nature.
Painting is but another word for feeling.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
