Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
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Quote c. 1840; as cited by by Charles Rob Leslie Vol. 1, (1860), p. 208; as quoted in The Life of J. M. W. Turner - Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians, Walter Thornbury; Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 244
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Turner's remark in the 1840's, when the new built Houses of Parliament in London were to be decorated with pictures