Composition Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

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

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

“From Portrait of a Landscape I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts to die.”

— Daniel D. Watkins

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the…

— Sidney Nolan

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

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered…

— John Constable

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

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

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

“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