“The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.” FirstsBitsEnjoyColorBirdPrimariesLandscapeBrownGrayCheerRobinsHueSparrowsBluebird Book:The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout Source: The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout
“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.” DoeLightSunPositionColorPaintingBearsLandscapeComparisonBrightnessVivacity Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.” FeelingsColorSeriesLandscapeCombinationCanvasVibrancy Author:Maurice de Vlaminck
“The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.” TryingWellsUseLightSpaceIssuesColorBalanceTraditionMediumsLandscapeAppropriatePushingFormalRepetitionEngagingMaximumFormatQuilts Author:Elizabeth Barton
“I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.” ProblemFiguresColorPaintingOrdinaryStructureTraditionalLandscapeDistinctionLightingFigure Painting Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.” PeopleGivingInspirationFormColorMetsOffersAreasSouthLandscapeRegionsValleysStarksFertileLush Author:Peter Sculthorpe
“I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.” WayHas BeensArtTodayCenturyColorPhotographyResearchStrategyPhotographerLandscapeViewersNineteenth CenturyPictorialAmerican Landscape Author:John Pfahl
“Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.” FirstsHeartKindRealityDarkBehindsPovertyWorstBuildingColorLetting GoWesternStrikesPrimariesLandscapeBusClothingsFencePortHaitiHueCaribbeanHemisphereInspectionNever Let Go Author:Andrea Mitchell
“Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.” ShowsBeautifulWishColorSightDistanceDelightLandscapeAfarCoarse Author:Thomas Yalden
“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.” KindFactsLightPoetryEmotionObjectsParticularColorPoetLandscapeSensations Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.” MenGivingMindBelieveLooksMadeHandsEarthI BelieveSoundWonderImagineParticularColorWindOughtCreaturesSeasonsLandscapeDawnRememberedImagine ThatAngleNoonDuskGlareDawn And Dusk Book:The Way to Rainy Mountain Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain
“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.” ThinkingWellsLongSometimesBigsChanceToo MuchOne ThingColorPaintingPaintWideLandscapeBroadsCanvasPencils Author:Joni Eareckson Tada
“Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.” GivingBookShowsFilmCultureIndividualChanceFocusColorLandscapeDocumentariesAmerican CultureTexturePivotal Author:Steve Stoute
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.” DoeIdeasWould BeWantedFeltBitsBlackWhitePiecesColorDrawsWoodsBe GoodDrawingLandscapeBlack And WhiteNew Ideas Author:David Hockney
“The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.” IfsMenLongPlayLastsFormOrderWalksPleasureRolesColorConceptsRelationStructureConvincedMeaningfulLandscapeMeaninglessSubjectiveArbitraryTotalityPedestriansLandscaping Author:Max Horkheimer
“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.” ThinkingLooksMayWholePayAttentionRichColorPaintingAreasLandscapeColorful Author:Matt Smith
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” ArtistColorShapesOrdinaryGardenPlantIntentionComplexesLandscapeUnusualAestheticGardeningPlasticVolumeDoomedTrue HappinessDisappearance Author:Roberto Burle Marx