Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has… — Vincent Van Gogh
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain... — Paul Gauguin
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment. — Claude Monet
I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm… — Claude Monet
These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in… — Claude Monet
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,… — Robert Motherwell
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on… — Ingmar Bergman
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments… — Paul Klee
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without… — Alain de Botton
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. — Alain de Botton
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in… — J M W Turner
Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of… — Maurice de Vlaminck
When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting. — Sidney Nolan
I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals. — Werner Herzog
What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again… — Werner Herzog
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner… — Werner Herzog
The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. — Zaha Hadid
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter
No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers… — Matt Smith
The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I… — Elizabeth Barton
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like… — Jenny Saville

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