Landscape Quotes - Page 16

• There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

  Joan Didion

  Homesick, Nostalgia, Impulse

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• If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.

  Robert Motherwell

  Children, Flower, Giving

  Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

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• There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

  Alain de Botton

  Artist, Greatness, Results

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• Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Color, Feelings, Vibrancy

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

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Accessories, Figures, Should

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

  Sidney Nolan

  Feelings, Emotion, Painting

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• No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

  Matt Smith

  Mountain, Balance, Desert

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• We are all of us walking communities of bacteria.
  The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape
  made of tiny living beings.

  Lynn Margulis

  Community, World, Bacteria

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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• You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Men, Etc, Boat

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• In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unity, Sake, Painting

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• A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Taken, Landscape Painting, Lines

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• A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Moving, Heart, Emotional

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• The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Portraits, Gone, Portraiture

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• Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spiritual, Artist, Vanity

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• Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Vanity, Said, Painter

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• Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Summer, Bye, Long

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• Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

  John F. Carlson

  Clouds, Elements, Movement

  John F. Carlson (1973). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Feelings, Cups, Painting

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• Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

  Robert Genn

  Fall, Giving, Feelings

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• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Long, Ugly

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.58, Great West Books

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• Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Land, Cities, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.250, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Pride, Animal, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.158, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Teacher, Artist, Important

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• 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 its beauty.

  Fernando Botero

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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