Landscape Painting Quotes:

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

- Rebecca Solnit

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

topic: Garden, Landscape Painting, Pope

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

- John Ruskin

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

topic: Landscape Painting, Done, Literature

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

- Mason Cooley

topic: Truth, Landscape Painting, Horizon

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

- Robert Hughes

topic: Sex, Landscape Painting, Novel, American Landscape

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

- William Hazlitt

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

topic: Landscape Painting, Misanthropy, Resources

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Art, Diaries, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist

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

topic: Moving, Heart, Emotional, Landscape Painting, Splendour

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

topic: Feelings, Landscape, Painting, Landscape Painting

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

- Jackson Pollock

topic: Artist, Etc, No Fear, Expressionism, Landscape Painting

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

source: John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

topic: Philosophy, Law, Branches, Landscape Painting, Natural Philosophy

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

topic: Taken, Landscape, May, Landscape Painting

All gardening is landscape painting.

- William Kent

topic: Beauty, Garden, Design, Landscape Painting

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

- Barbara Ann Kipfer

topic: Thinking, Views, Land, Landscape Painting

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Photography, Differences, Space, Landscape Painting, Highlighting

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

topic: Fall, Giving, Feelings, Landscape Painting

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

topic: Art, Drama, Flower, Culmination, Landscape Painting

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

topic: Wall, White, Juice, Landscape Painting

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

topic: Men, Calling, Landscape, Landscape Painting