Currents Quote by Ted Godwin

The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The…

— Peter Sculthorpe

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...

— Gerhard Richter

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

— Jade Bird

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of…

— Douglas Coupland

... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are…

— Gerhard Richter

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect…

— Marsden Hartley

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

— B. W. Powe

Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around…

— Tom Turner

Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.

— Devendra Banhart

Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field…

— DJ Spooky