Christopher Neve > Quotes

“The painter goes through the land and sees what nobody else has seen because landscape painting comes from inside and not out. It depends entirely on who he is. Nature is stronger than the strongest man and there is no going against it. It finds its way into his imagination via all his senses; it becomes part of his spirit, and then, with great care and sensitivity, it may be brought back again by hand into the visible world and somehow recognized. Many of the artists in this book, whom I have asked about this, do not know how it happens. They have within themselves an unexplained ability to darken or lighten other people’s feelings through pictures.”
― Christopher Neve, Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting