I certainly believe that the simple landscape which seems less impressive is the nature that is most proper to paint. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek) (Willem Roelofs)

I certainly believe that the simple landscape which seems less impressive is the nature that is most proper to paint. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

Willem Roelofs

Related topics

believe less nature paint proper simple

Related quotes

Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. View quote
James Madison
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. View quote
Anthony Trollope