“To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.” GivingHumansArtSubjectsBackgroundsLandscapeApplesClayTorsoCezanneGoya Author:W. H. Auden
“While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.” GivingEmotionSubjectsStyleInspirePraiseCriticsPainterLandscapeImpulseBeholder Author:Walter J. Phillips
“When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.” WayHouseWalksTreeSubjectsRocksPaintingConceptsLandscapeVisualsDesirableSnapshots Author:John French Sloan
“After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.” NeedsYearsFeltSubjectsPaintingOilLandscapeWildlifePortraiture Author:Ron Parker
“I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.” WayMatterLightFacesFormFallSubjectsShadowLandscapeSubject MatterLight And Shadow Author:Paul Emsley
“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
“Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.” ChildrenStillsNightSoundSilenceDoorsSubjectsSummerSticksPhotographLandscapeSnapsGarageMothsSummer Nights Author:Robert Adams
“One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.” IfsCharacterStoriesInterestingQualitySubjectsEffectsCriticismTestsHarmonyDeedsPainterLandscapeEaseFeaturesAnalysisMotiveFacultySentimentsComprehensionIdentificationProminent Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.” ThinkingMeanPersonsMightKnowingSubjectsFrontsPhotographLandscapeInvolvementSnapping Author:Frans Lanting
“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.” ShouldArtDifferentEndsMatterFormSpiritPoetryGivenSituationAchieveSubjectsEventsPoetCircumstancesDegreesUnityMereStriveInstanceLandscapeStrifePenetrateIncidentsTopography Author:Walter Pater
“When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.” KnowsPersonsFilmEnvironmentSubjectsFrontsStudiosLandscapeChairsControlled Author:Bill Henson
“We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.” HumansArtAgeFormSubjectsTraditionTraditionalLandscapeAbstractHuman FormExpressionismCommercial ArtAbstract Expressionism Author:Andy Warhol
“I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.” I CanUseEyeGreaterSubjectsObjectsProduceProjectsCamerasPhotographerActiveImpressionLandscape Book:Olafur Eliasson: photographs Source: Olafur Eliasson: photographs