Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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 like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.

Nature did all things well

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

I always look outside.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.