Landscape Quotes - Page 8

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape