Art Quote by Thomas Hardy

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

... 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

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid…

— Bret Easton Ellis

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man…

— Anonymous

My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is…

— Freydoon Rassouli

“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the…

— Paul Gauguin

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds…

— Pierre Alechinsky

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

— J. G. Ballard

I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the…

— John Pfahl

“I don't create my images as visual equations to be solved, but rather, i create them as internal landscapes that the viewer can explore.…

— Jaeda DeWalt

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying…

— Susan Rothenberg

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

— Ted Godwin