“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.” WorldShouldWellsLooksShowsRealityImaginationInformationProduceTaughtPaintingProfessionPainterComparisonPoeticAnxious Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)
“Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.” ArtWorryPaintingLogicalPoeticGravitySculptureSculptorsSculpting Author:Damien Hirst
“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)” IfsWholeEyeSunCreationPaintingIdealsCamerasPaintPoeticFlashDescribingWhole PictureCamera Obscura Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge