Branches Quote by John Constable

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

— John Constable

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

— Bridget Riley

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

— Keith Shackleton

A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human…

— Walter J. Phillips

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks.…

— John French Sloan

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or…

— Walter J. Phillips

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows,…

— John Ruskin

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a…

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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…

— Fernando Botero

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…

— Fernando Botero