Landscape Painting Quotes

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

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.

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.

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

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.