"A landscape is a home you live in. One can become attached to it, one can love it and prefer it to others....

"A familiar landscape touches you more deeply, you understand it better, having known it; you must live in it to understand it, just as you must suffer to portray suffering. ...You must have seen the skies; the landscape you live in is as much a part of you as a parent."

- Ferdinand Hodler, a painter who spent his latter years in Geneva