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166 Landscapes quotes by 139 unique authors
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You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in…
— Claude Monet
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments…
— Paul Klee
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It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.
— Alain de Botton
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When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
— Werner Herzog
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What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again…
— Werner Herzog
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For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner…
— Werner Herzog
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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'...
— Gerhard Richter
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No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers…
— Matt Smith
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I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
— E. J. Hughes
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
— John Muir
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The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
— William Hazlitt
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I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing…
— Edward Norton
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the…
— Macaulay Culkin
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New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the…
— Junot Diaz
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on…
— Washington Irving
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I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
— John Lydon
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
— Robert Smithson
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Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
— David Suzuki
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Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape…
— Anne Michaels
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