“You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.” ChildrenChildhoodFiguresFieldsRainWoodsSnowLandscapeMeadows Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.” WayLittlesLongI CanMomentsLightRunningLastsRememberFilmRoomsChildhoodWallDetailsSmellWanderLandscapeLong AgoHungScrap Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman
“I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.” PeopleKnowsWantPiecesChildhoodPaintingIntellectualMarkLandscapeAbstractBrushes Author:Jenny Saville
“The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.” CharacterStoriesForgetChildhoodShapesOur ChildrenSacredLandscapeYour ChildrenNever ForgetSacred Places Author:John Dufresne
“We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.” SoulCharacterWould BeChildhoodRootsUniversalPlantLandscapeThemeSoilShallowHometown Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.” PeopleYearsEndsCountrySoundHalfClearChildhoodForgottenLandscapeRememberedEpisodesLooking BackScentTelescopesMisty Book:Listening Valley Source: Listening Valley