English Landscape Painter

Famous quotes containing the words english, landscape and/or painter:

    “Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And year by year the landscape grow
    Familiar to the stranger’s child;”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.”
    —quoted in letter, Aug. 6, 1775, by painter John Singleton Copley on the subject of the American Revolution. British proverb.