Landscape Quotes - Page 5

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

Landscape shapes culture

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.