Top 9 Landscape Painting Quotes

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

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

Sex, Landscape Painting, Novel

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

Landscape Painting, Misanthropy, Resources

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

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, Landscape Painting, Demonstration

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

John Ruskin

Landscape Painting, Done, Literature

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

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

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

Rebecca Solnit

Garden, Landscape Painting, Pope

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

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

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, Landscape Painting