I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
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Original Citation
Constable, John. Quoted in Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, written and edited by C.R. Leslie. London: James Carpenter, 1843, ch. 17.
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Current Citation
Constable, John. Quoted in Constable: Memoirs of the Life (Arts & Letters), written and edited by C.R. Leslie. Phaidon, 1995.
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