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When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

John Constable
Trying, Firsts, Forget
John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.