I never in my whole life could make a drawing like that; I … - J. M. W. Turner

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I never in my whole life could make a drawing like that; I would at any time have given one of my little fingers to have made such a one [one of Girtin's yellow drawings].

J. M. W. Turner

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William Turner RA (baptized 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling .

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Native Name: Joseph Mallord William Turner

Alternative Names: William Turner • James Mallord William Turner • Joseph Mallord W. Turner • JMW Turner • Joseph Mallard William Turner • Tzozeph Mallornt Ouilliam Tarner

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Hawkey - Hawkey [Mr. Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, close friend of Turner] - come here - come here! Look at this thunderstorm! Isn't it grand? - Isn't it wonderful? - Isn't it sublime?. .There, Hawkey; in two years you will see this again, and call it 'Hannibal Crossing the Alps'.

It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.

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

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