A man once said to Turner, the
artist, “Mr. Turner, I never saw any sun-
sets like yours,” to which the artist replied, “No, sir, but don’t you wish you
could?”
When told no one had seen sunsets like his, artist Turner simply replied, 'Don't you wish you could?', a call to aim for a higher standard.
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