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

- J. M. W. Turner

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 lin…

- J. M. W. Turner

Light is therefore color.

- J. M. W. Turner

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

- J. M. W. Turner

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 confin…

- J. M. W. Turner

There's a sketch at every turn.

- J. M. W. Turner

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

- J. M. W. Turner

Indistinctness is my forte.

- J. M. W. Turner

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

- J. M. W. Turner