"From sheer indolence great mistakes are often made in re-presentation."

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

"Turner was a very different man to Constable, yet quite like him in one respect, namely, his entire reliance on a gui…"

"Turner did not talk well, and never talked of his own art, or of the art of others."

"It was impossible however not to like Turner, there was something so social and cordial in his nature and I believe h…"

"Turner will be placed in that class whose genius is such that we can never praise him too much or blame him too much."

"Turner is my great favourite of all the painters here. He combines the highest poetical imagination with an exquisite…"

"To me the prevailing tone of Rembrandt's mind, as shown in his art, is serenity. Where the subject allows him, his na…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"