“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.” MenHe ManPaintingCallingProfessionLandscapeMinistersAbandonLandscape Painting Author:Christopher Pearse Cranch
“Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.” PaintingResourcesObviousLandscapeMisanthropyLandscape Painting Book:Criticisms on Art Source: Criticisms on Art
“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.” MayLinesTakenPaintingLandscapeMake SenseCompositionIgnoredLandscape Painting Author:Walter J. Phillips
“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.” HumansWellsHeartDoneMovingEmotionRecordsEffectsEmotionalPaintingMovedIllLandscapeHuman HeartSplendourLandscape Painting Author:Walter J. Phillips
“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.” GivingFeelingsFallPaintingTraditionGive MeNobleLandscapeAcademicLandscape Painting Author:Robert Genn
“A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.” FeelingsSubjectsPaintingOffersPaintLandscapeApplicationCompetenceDemonstrationCompetentHomageLandscape Painting Author:Keith Shackleton
“The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.” TruthPaintingLandscapeHorizonConventionsLandscape Painting Author:Mason Cooley
“Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.” SexNovelPaintingLandscapePsychoanalysisAmerican LandscapeLandscape Painting Author:Robert Hughes
“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.” DifferencesSpaceHappenedCenturyBuildingPaintingPhotographyMethodPhotographLandscape20th CenturyHighlightingLandscape Painting Author:Cynthia Daignault