Landscape Quotes - Page 12

The West to me is where the landscape is.

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

I like America's diversity and its landscapes.

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands.

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.