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166 Landscapes quotes by 139 unique authors

In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds,… — Tom Turner
One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in… — Joel Meyerowitz
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… — Terry Tempest Williams
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. — Agnes Varda
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity… — Roger Deakin
Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think.… — Mary Lee Settle
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that… — Michael Kenna
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. — Susan Sontag
Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes. — Paul Theroux
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,… — Graeme Le Saux
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,… — Gerhard Richter
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,… — Gerhard Richter
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this… — Gerhard Richter
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That… — Robert Fitzgerald
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang… — David Amram
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. — Fay Godwin
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect. — Jeff Goodell
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an… — Emile M. Cioran
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh,… — Edgar Degas
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who… — Andre Malraux

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