Not till much later is there a touch of brighter colour in them such as fires the 'Temeraire,' but in all there is the same spirit of poetry.

Turner longed to be a poet, although he could hardly write a correct sentence even in prose.

But he was a poet in his outlook upon life; he seldom painted a scene exactly as he saw it, but transfused it by an imaginative touch into what on rare occasions, with perfect conjuncture of mist and weather, it might possibly become.

He gave extra height to church spires, or made precipices steeper than they were, thus to render the impression of the place more explicit than by strict copying of the facts.

Yet he could be minutely accurate in his rendering of all effects of sky, cloud, and atmosphere when he chose.
Other landscape painters have generally succeeded best with some particular aspect of nature, and have confined themselves to that.
Cuyp excelled in painting the golden haze of sunshine, and Constable in effects of storm and rain.