"I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects."

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I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.

— John Constable