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Charles Robert Leslie
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“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.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turner did not talk well, and never talked of his own art, or of the art of others.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turner will be placed in that class whose genius is such that we can never praise him too much or blame him too much.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Turner is my great favourite of all the painters here. He combines the highest poetical imagination with an exquisite feeling for all the truth and individuality of nature; and he has shown that the ideal, as it is called, is not the improving of Nature, but the selecting and combining objects that are most in harmony and character with each other.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing letters with me is not a thing that can be done at odd scraps of time. I must sit down, compose myself & collect all of my thoughts.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie with Selections from his correspondence Ed. Tom Taylor , Ticknor & Fields, Boston 1860
“From sheer indolence great mistakes are often made in re-presentation.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The gentleness, so utterly removed from insipidity, of Raphael, is a thing of which true taste never tires.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To me the prevailing tone of Rembrandt's mind, as shown in his art, is serenity. Where the subject allows him, his natural disposition seems always tranquil. He is the painter of repose.”
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source