Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you're doing a so-called landscape painting. (Per Kirkeby)

Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you're doing a so-called landscape painting.

Per Kirkeby

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