“There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.” John Ruskin
John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist and avid supporter of Turner.
By-the-by, he would probably not have tarried at this particular spot today: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/06/climate-change-ravages-turner-majestic-glaciers-ruskin–alps-emma-stibbon-exhibition
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.” John Ruskin