It was through poems and pictures, which they read and saw, that the general run of folks first learned to look for beauty in nature.

I have no doubt that Turner's wonderful sunsets made plenty of people look at sunsets and rejoice in the intricacy and splendour of their glory for the first time in their lives.

Well, what Turner and other painters of his generation did for landscape, had had to be done for men and women in earlier days by earlier generations of artists.

The Greeks were the first, in their sculpture, to show the wonderful beauty of the human form; till their day people had not recognised what to us now seems obvious.
No doubt they had thought one person pretty and another handsome, but they had not known that the human figure was essentially a glorious thing till the Greek sculptors showed them.

Another thing painters have taught the world is the beauty of atmosphere.