Landscape Quotes - Page 13

• What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

  Agnes Denes

  Lasts, Canvas, Photograph

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odour of a child's saliva, crushed grass, and medusa's veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Children, Wind, Baptism

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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, Landscape Painting, Calling

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• Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

  William Hazlitt

  Landscape Painting, Misanthropy, Resources

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

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

  John Burroughs

  Cheer, Color, Bird

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Light, Brightness

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• Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sight, Smell, Sketching

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 238, 1982.

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• Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

  Henry Moore

  Beautiful, Art, Air

  Henry Moore, David Sylvester, Alan Bowness (1986). “Henry Moore: Sculpture 1949-54”, Lund Humphries Publishers

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• I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.

  Henry Moore

  Space, Air, Tree

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• The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

  Christine Lagarde

  Government, Europe, Doubt

  "Christine Lagarde interview on second day in IMF job". Interview with Stephanie Flanders, www.bbc.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

  Andre Malraux

  Love Picture, Sunset, Musician

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• If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

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• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Use, Moments

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• 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 moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Running, Wall, Light

  Vlada Petrić, Ingmar Bergman (1981). “Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman”, Redgrave Publishing Company

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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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• It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

  Alain de Botton

  Sublime, Religion, Belief

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• To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Beautiful, Art, Lines

  "The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Dennis Hugh Halloran, p. 75, 1970.

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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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• When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Visionaries, Degas, Faces

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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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• I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

  Werner Herzog

  Leadership, Animal, Actors

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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