Landscape Quotes · Page 7

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

— Martha Graham

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

— Claude Monet

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

— Christopher Tunnard

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

— John Constable

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

— Fay Godwin

It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.

— Mick Dodson

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

— Pearl S. Buck

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

— Edith Wharton

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm…

— Jim Jarmusch

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

— Zachary Quinto

Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for…

— David Holmgren

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables,…

— Anonymous

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a…

— Dylan Moran

“Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having…

— Álvaro de Campos

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began…

— Alain de Botton

“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...”

— John Geddes

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights…

— Timothy Morton

My dad always said to me that he hoped there would be a wage, so that I could be a footballer as…

— Leah Williamson

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's…

— Claire Denis

I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon…

— Henry Rollins

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take…

— Chris O'Donnell

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to…

— N. Scott Momaday

I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am…

— Jenni Olson

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises…

— Haruki Murakami

I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody…

— Suzanne Cory

It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky,…

— Bill Bryson

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But…

— Barbara Hepworth

“Such then is the nature of quasispecies : the density of the sequence cloud at any point in sequence space is determined…

— Michael G Cordingley

It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes…

— Bill Bryson

Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as…

— Len McCluskey

“There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.”

— Daniel J. Rice

Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.

— Claire Danes

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

— Ma Yansong

“I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me. ”

— Paul Cezanne

“was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.”

— Lucille Clifton

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

— Arthur Erickson

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

— Antoine Predock

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

— Isabel Allende