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.

Rock formations and their layers of texture and color have been a strong inspiration, as well as the landscapes of Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada and the Rainbow Mountains in China.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

At HSN, entertainment has quickly become a core part of who we are and is a key differentiator from others in the retail landscape.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

I get excited by landscape.

Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.