Turner Quotes 

The private ownership of great art, its seclusion from the general view of men and women, let alone from that of interested amateurs and scholars, is a curious business. The literal disappearance of a Turner or a Van Gogh into some Middle Eastern or Latin-American bank vault to be kept as investment and collateral, the sardonic decision of a Greek shipping tycoon to put an incomparable El Greco on his yacht, where it hangs at persistent risk — these are phenomena that verge on vandalism.
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Turner looks a bit shakyand unsteady, but I think he's going to bat onone ball left!

Brian Johnston

— Radio commentary, during an England Test match after batsman Glenn Turner was hit on the box by a cricket ball on the fifth ball of the over.

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The Turner should be renamed the B&Q diy prize.

charles thomson

— Dalya Alberge, "One Man and His Boat Sail into a Storm over the Turner" The Times, 2005-12-06.
— On the 2005 Turner Prize winner, Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat and back into a shed.

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D.M. Turner: 1962-1997 Brief biography at Erowid.org

d.m. turner

— In Memory of D.M.Turner

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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons

orson welles

— Near death request to filmmaker Henry JaglomLebo, Harlan (1990). Citizen Kane:the fiftieth-anniversary album. Doubleday. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-385-41473-9. 

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Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?

thomas hardy

— Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Fore Scene, Spirit of the Pities.

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CNN is one of the participants in the war . I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power .

arthur c. clarke

— Quoted in And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 279

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What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism , a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.

claude debussy

— As quoted in The Lives of the Great Composers (1997) by Harold C. Schonberg, p. 464

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Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?

thomas hardy

— Pt. I, forescene, Spirit of the Pities.

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What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.


— Claude Debussy As quoted in The Lives of the Great Composers (1997) by Harold C. Schonberg, p. 464

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With Wordsworth , the mountains of Cumberland passed into World Literature, became, like the music of Beethoven and the paintings of Turner , symbols of the power, the vitality, the force of nature and super-nature which haunted and compelled the imagination of the nineteenth century.


— Norman Nicholson The Lake District (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1977] 1982) p. 14.

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