Simon Schma...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.
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...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock. The man who has not been to the place, or at least dreamed of it, may yet compose a poem about it. He will be able to paint it then only when the picturesque and the picturesquely beautiful, the lovely and the lovely-looking, have become familiar to him.
And so it is with landscape. What we see in front of us at one time, we see again through other eyes at another time; and this other view, which we receive through our senses, does not belong to this present time alone. It belongs to future and past times as well: and we should therefore regard it as a work of the mind and not as a thing which is seen by our senses alone.
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