Charles Robert Leslie: Quotes about nature

Charles Robert Leslie was British painter (1794-1859). Explore interesting quotes on nature.
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“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

Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie with Selections from his correspondence

“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

Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie with Selections from his correspondence

“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 repos”

Charles Robert Leslie

A Handbook for Young Painters