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A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others. -- Walter J. Phillips
All gardening is landscape painting. -- William Kent
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. -- Rebecca Solnit
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. -- Mason Cooley
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. -- John Ruskin
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
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
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
Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors. -- Ama H.Vanniarachchy
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments? -- John Constable
I'd love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I'd tell him, "It's a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man."" -- Jarod Kintz
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. -- John Roberts
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. -- John Roberts
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting. -- Brian Eno
For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space. -- Cynthia Daignault
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. -- Robert Hughes
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. -- Gavin Rossdale
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. -- Walter Darby Bannard
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
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. -- David Amram
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. -- Grimes
Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting. -- Jools Holland
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. -- William Wiley
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ. -- Susan Vreeland
I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams. -- April Gornik
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life. -- Rob Manuel
Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not too hot, and we made detours to look at treasures - churches, paintings, little hill villages. The first couple of days, you feel your knees are turning to jelly. But, at the end, you feel very limber. I hope I can always do it. -- Diana Quick
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. -- William Hazlitt
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. -- Willem de Kooning
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
(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. -- Jean-Luc Godard
In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful. -- Matt Smith
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition. -- Robert Genn

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