Ariana Richards Quotes

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

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

I have been naturally inclined towards mountains, trees, flowers, and rivers.

Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.

My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.

The man of humanity delights in mountains

There are a lot of mountains with a lot of water.

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.