Picturesque Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth. — George Perkins Marsh
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. — Dorothea Lange
I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To… — Stevie Wonder
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer… — Gary A. Kowalski
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put… — James Weldon Johnson
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. — Nancy Astor
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! — George Eliot
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.… — Terry Pratchett
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because… — Roni Horn
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff. — William Topaz McGonagall
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the… — Childe Hassam
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. — E. J. Hughes

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