Aphorisms for Artists by Walter Darby Bannard

Aphorism #50

When painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

After all, the one real thing you have is your experience, and the painting comes from that experience.

The landscape is just something you are looking at. If you turn your head—poof!—there’s another landscape.

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