Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity… — Ian Hornak
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale. — Richard Siken
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face. — Irvin Kershner
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master… — Laird Barron
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies… — Peter York
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of… — Baz Luhrmann
It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the… — Luther Standing Bear
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply… — Henry David Thoreau
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and… — Agnes Denes
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create… — Christopher Pearse Cranch
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. — William Hazlitt
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same… — John Burroughs
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the… — Leonardo da Vinci
I don't believe in the landscape. — Fernando Pessoa
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa
Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than… — Henry Moore
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth… — Henry Moore
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund.… — Christine Lagarde
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh,… — Edgar Degas
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who… — Andre Malraux
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,… — John Ruskin

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