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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.