Landscape Painting Quotes: top 25 famous quotes about Landscape Painting

Landscape Painting Quotes & Sayings

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When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you. — Paul Mooney

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

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. — E.W. Howe

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. — William Hazlitt

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I'm heaven's landscape painter. — Bauvard

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

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — John F. Carlsons

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth. — Gustave Flaubert

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

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

I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single. — Michael Bassey Johnson

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard

Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest. — Edmund Spenser

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley

Cause mo better makes it mo better. — Spike Lee

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils. — Ron Parker

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

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

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed. — Atalina Wright

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. — Rebecca Solnit

Poor Eric came home to see his brother, only to find (Zap!Pow!Dams burst!Bombs go off!Wasps fry:ttssss!) he's got a sister. — Iain Banks

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty. — Mason Cooley

I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since. — Christopher Buckley

There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write. — David Diringer

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem De Kooning