Landscape Painting Quotes
- Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as… — John Constable
- Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of… — John Roberts
- 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
- 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
- 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
- All gardening is landscape painting. — William Kent
- I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin
- All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. — Rebecca Solnit