Georges Rouault Quotes

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

I love the mountains, the light. I'm a real light junkie.

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I get excited by landscape.

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Land really is the best art.

I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mt. Blanc, but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land.

I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can't have great beauty without lots of rain.

The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape.