Landscape Quotes - Page 7

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.