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Turner will be placed in that class whose genius is such that we can never praise him too much or blame him too much.

— Charles Robert Leslie

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Writing letters with me is not a thing that can be done at odd scraps of time. I must sit down, compose myself & collect all of my thoughts.

The gentleness, so utterly removed from insipidity, of Raphael, is a thing of which true taste never tires.

From sheer indolence great mistakes are often made in re-presentation.

To me the prevailing tone of Rembrandt's mind, as shown in his art, is serenity. Where the subject allows him, his natural disposition seems always tranquil. He is the painter of repose.

Turner did not talk well, and never talked of his own art, or of the art of others.

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