Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape.… — Keren Ann
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly… — Walter J. Phillips
The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he… — Walter J. Phillips
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may… — Walter J. Phillips
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart,… — Walter J. Phillips
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… — Walter J. Phillips
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture… — Walter J. Phillips
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that… — Walter J. Phillips
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again. — Walter J. Phillips
Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds… — Neltje Blanchan
Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement. — John F. Carlson
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult… — Ellen Meloy
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting… — Richard Diebenkorn
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the… — Robert Genn
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that… — Robert Genn
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some… — Wayne Thiebaud
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting,… — Wayne Thiebaud
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its… — Fernando Botero
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. — E. J. Hughes
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual. — Wolf Kahn
None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. — John Muir

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