“We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.”

— Mark Tobey

Source: 1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951, p. 231

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American abstract expressionist painter 1890–1976

Li Yu (author)

As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1935), pp. 99 and 248
Compare:
We're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we've passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted,—better to us,
Which is the same thing. Art was given for that;
God uses us to help each other so,
Lending our minds out.
Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855)

“That's where we have to go," said Kestrel, looking at the mountain. "Into the fire.”

William Nicholson (1948) British screenwriter, playwright and novelist

Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 265

“Bless our Mountain Greenery home!
In a mountain greenery
Where God paints the scenery
Just two crazy people together”

Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) lyricist

Mountain Greenery http://www.lorenzhart.org/greenarysng.htm (1935)

“You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.”

Agnes Martin (1912–2004) American artist

interview with Joan Simon, 1995 in Perfection is in the Mind, p. 86; as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press, 2012, p. 263
1980 - 2000

“Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them.”

Kurt Vonnegut book Slaughterhouse-Five

Billy writing a letter to a newspaper describing the Tralfamadorians
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Context: The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes."

“When we see anti-Semitic activities and when we see swastikas painted, that is an attack on all of us as Virginians.”

Mark Warner (1954) United States Senator from Virginia

Source: 14 June 2019 https://roanoke.com/news/virginia/richmond-jewish-leaders-discuss-anti-semitism-with-sen-mark-warner/article_e6bc0bbe-3a5b-555b-96c6-cd7732c8b98d.html