Landscape Painting Quotes

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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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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• 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

  Feelings, Demonstration, Competence

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• The painting has a life of its own

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Art, Intuition

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

  John Constable

  Nature, Philosophy, Science

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

  William Hazlitt

  Misanthropy, Resources, Obvious

  William Hazlitt (1844). “Criticisms on Art”, p.233

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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, Lines, May

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• All gardening is landscape painting.

  William Kent

  Beauty, Garden, Design

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Photography, Differences, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Horizon, Conventions

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• Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

  Robert Hughes

  Sex, Novel, American Landscape

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• All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Pope, Said

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.99, Granta Books

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• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  John Roberts

  Art, Drama, Flower

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• The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.

  Wendy Mass

  Wall, White, Juice

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• I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

  John Ruskin

  Done, Literature, Renaissance

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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• I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Men, Calling, He Man

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