Golding Constable’s Kitchen Garden, John Constable; 1815

STEVE KOGAN writes:

John Constable’s landscapes and outdoor studies of nature are a perfect example of Goethe’s maxim, “Do not, I beg you, look behind the phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.” In other words, do not look for the causes or “laws” behind the surface of life, for if we are patient in observing and absorbing the tangible details of what is unfolding before us, their relationships will gradually emerge in a coherent, living whole, and “relationships are life,” as Goethe also observed.

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