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The climax of absurdity to which the art may be carried, when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... His landscape, of which he was evidently fond, is pastoral; and such pastorality! the pastoral of the Opera house.

— John Constable his lectures History of Landscape Painting (1836)

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No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

He seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent, and so airy.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

We see nothing truly till we understand it.

his lectures History of Landscape Painting (1836)

It is so ambiguous as to be scarcely intelligible in some parts (and those the principal), yet as a whole, it is novel and affecting.

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