Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when you're doing a so-called landscape painting. -


As quoted in Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings, Helaine Posner, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1992

Per Kirkeby Quotes

Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when ...

Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when ...

Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when ...

Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.... is to know that death is hiding behind it. This is what haunts you when ...