Landscape Quotes - Page 18

• How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

  John Marin

  Waiting, Firsts, Bows

  John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”

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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 am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Details, Way, Pupils

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

  Henry Fuseli

  Invention, Painter, Selection

  1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).

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• Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Blood, Drink, Break

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• I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge. Now, in the landscapes of the surrealist painters, for example, one sees the regions of Inner Space; and increasingly I believe that we will encounter in film and literature scenes which are neither solely realistic nor fantastic. In a sense, it will be a movement in the interzone between both spheres.

  J. G. Ballard

  Believe, Reality, Hands

  Munich Round Up Interview, 1968.

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• One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

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• It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.

  Gloria Estefan

  Latin, Believe, Artist

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• The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

  John Milton

  Clouds, Elements, Lows

  John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.37

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• My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.

  John Constable

  Mother, Light, Essence

  "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Morning, Block, Sunday

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Country, Men, Interesting

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. II". Book by Jean Dubuffet, p. 63-73, 1967.

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• Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Men, Primitive Man, Drawing

  Studio International 171, p. 280, June 1966.

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• I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.

  Henry Rollins

  Religious, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Song, Wine

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

  Martin Amis

  Night, September 11, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Country, Air, Wind

  Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

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• We offer you the landscape of your birth --
  Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
  We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
  For killing what we cannot even name.

  Dana Gioia

  Names, Earth, Blame

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan

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• We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that complement human memory in a way that helps us get things done.

  Eric Horvitz

  Memories, Track, Supportive

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• The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Atheist, Stars

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.191, Macmillan

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• In pitch dark
  I go walking in your landscape
  Broken branches
  Trip me as I speak
  Just 'cause you feel it
  Doesn't mean it's there...
  We are accidents waiting
  Waiting to happen.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Dark, Broken

  "Song: 'There There'". 2003.

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• The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Spiritual, Unique, Cities

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Desert, Way, Taste

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

  Paul Emsley

  Fall, Light, Shadow

  "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.

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