Landscape Quotes
873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors
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Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew…
— Brian Setzer
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Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living…
— Thomas Berry
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean…
— Gerhard Richter
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Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous…
— Unknown Author
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You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work…
— Clement Greenberg
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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,…
— Sigmund Freud
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great…
— Sebastian Barry
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
— Paul Cezanne
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
— Doris Lessing
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It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or…
— Diane Arbus
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There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can…
— Stephen Shore
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It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape…
— Lawrence Summers
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There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make…
— Unknown Author
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Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort…
— Jeffrey Deitch
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins…
— Derek Walcott
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Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
— Dave Reichert
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Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.
— Claude Monet
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
— Claude Monet
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Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during…
— J. L. Carr
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There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening -…
— Gustav Klimt
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What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset…
— Helen Frankenthaler
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A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is…
— Edvard Grieg
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Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.
— Sidney Hook
Who Wrote These Landscape Quotes
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