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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a…

— Rebecca Solnit

To fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening scope, but enjoying the freedom that Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality…

— Anonymous

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

— Oscar Niemeyer

“After a time, my hand had become as skilled as my eyes. So if I was drawing a very fine tree, it felt as…

— Orhan Pamuk

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his…

— Barbara Hepworth

“the thought process: "It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink…

— Virginia Woolf

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light…

— Saint Augustine

“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy…

— Rebecca Solnit

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way…

— Anna Kamienska

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side…

— Alberto Manguel

Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets…

— Octavio Paz