Clergyman's

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

This appearance of the Evening was... just after a very heavy rain — more rain in the night and very — wind which continued all the — day following while making – this sketch observed the Moon easing – very beautifully... due East over the — heavy clouds from which the late showers – had fallen.
- John Constable

I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done – I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point.
- John Constable

My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly — and worse — of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? ""Tempest o'er tempest roll'd"" — still the ""darkness"" is majestic.
- John Constable

I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.
- John Constable

My picture is liked at the Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature — the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry — painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones – perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.
- John Constable