A Quote by Wolf Kahn

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

Wolf Kahn

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Wolf Kahn
American - Painter
Born: October 4, 1927

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

Walter J. Phillips

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

Agnes Denes

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

Isak Dinesen

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

John Ruskin

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Barry Lopez

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

Marcel Duchamp

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Henry Fuseli

I think David Fincher should probably be an 18th Century Landscape painter because he has this temperament.

Robert Graysmith

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

Walter J. Phillips

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Jo Walton

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Robert Henri

If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.

Roisin Murphy

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

Carolee Schneemann

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.