Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again..

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense..

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day..

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence..

A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and ac….

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art..

The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, spongin….

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature..

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments..

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement..

Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the Eng….

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter..

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence..

Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches ar….

When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed ….

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind..

Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of….

Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take car….

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast..

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actu….

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour..