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

— J.M.W. Turner

Turner, quoted in: Donald B. MacCulloch (1927) The Wondrous Isle of Staffa, p. 160
Alternative quote:
My job is to paint what I see, not what I know
As quoted in: George Seferis (1999) A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-1951. p. 105
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British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and pr… 1775–1851

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