1.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Robert Hughes
2.
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt
3.
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.
Keith Shackleton
4.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin
5.
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.
Christopher Pearse Cranch
6.
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.
Walter J. Phillips
7.
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
Rebecca Solnit
8.
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.
Mason Cooley
9.
The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.
Wendy Mass