Artist Quote by Wolf Kahn

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

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling…

— Robert Genn

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

— William Hazlitt

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

— Walter J. Phillips

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or…

— Roisin Murphy

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth…

— Maya Lin

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

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

— Edouard Manet

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

— E. J. Hughes

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

— Patti Smith

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

— Henry Fuseli

I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have…

— Fay Godwin