Keith Shackleton famous quotes

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.
-- Keith Shackleton

#Feelings #Landscape #Painting

Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work.
-- Keith Shackleton

#Writing #Order #Age

I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.
-- Keith Shackleton

#Photography #Reality #Pitfalls

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.