Landscape Painting

Famous quotes containing the words landscape painting, landscape and/or painting:

    “The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The air was so elastic and crystalline that it had the same effect on the landscape that a glass has on a picture, to give it an ideal remoteness and perfection.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)