Landscape Interpretation Quotes

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

It's not that I wrote those details, but photos can give you the confidence that you have a real feel for the landscape. Then you can invent with a solid kind of faith, and recreate a feel and flavor of the time, and, one hopes, a tonality, a sense of that time having been lived by those characters.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I’ve been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who’s inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I’ve had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes – mountains and water and flowers and birds.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.