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

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

It was impossible however not to like Turner, there was something so social and cordial in his nature and I believe him to have had a excellent heart.

Turner was a very different man to Constable, yet quite like him in one respect, namely, his entire reliance on a guide within himself, always a characteristic of genius.