Landscape Quotes

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.

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

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Landscape is history made visible.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

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.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.