“What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.” IfsLongSaidDoneAbleDiesLandscapeRepeatsEmbarrassedAdequateDinosaurs Author:Werner Herzog
“Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.” SaidPainterVanityLandscapePencils Author:Walter J. Phillips
“All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.” SaidFormLandscapeVoid Author:William Hazlitt
“It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.” MenSaidHardTodayTogetherRealizingGroupsInfluenceDangerousHe ManPaintingCriticismResponsibleCriticsSevenDrawingImmigrationLandscapeInsanityRebelMeaninglessAccusedDiscouragingTreasonVerge Author:A. Y. Jackson