'Turner has some golden visions, glorious and beautiful; they are only visions, but still they are art, and one could live and die with such pictures....'

--JOHN CONSTABLE, 1828

'J.M.W. Turner is the only man who has ever given an entire transcript of the whole system of nature, and is, in this point of view, the only perfect landscape painter whom the world has ever seen....We have had, living with us, and painting for us, the greatest painter of all time; a man with whose supremacy of power no intellect of past ages can be put in comparison for a moment.'

--JOHN RUSKIN, 1843