Air Quote by Brice Marden

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

The image of Earth from space transformed our view of ourselves. It is maybe the most important image that exists - because we can…

— Sylvia Earle

That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.

— Leon Kossoff

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

— Jasper Johns

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

— Anonymous

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

— Stephane Mallarme

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

— Peter Brook

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

— Douglas Lockwood

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it…

— Isamu Noguchi