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.. [I] reprobate the mechanically systematic approach of drawing.. ..so generally diffused. I think it can produce nothing but manner and sameness.

— J. M. W. Turner

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Turner claimed then to have broken free of conventional methods

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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.

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

He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.

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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

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