Atlas Quote by David Plotz

The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and…

— Gerhard Richter

I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort…

— Dave Matthews

Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is…

— Michal Rovner

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard…

— Bill Bryson

“It’s something like the map makers around the time of Christopher Columbus, who drew dragons in the margins of maps to indicate bodies of…

— Chuck Frey

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be…

— Maya Lin

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas…

— Walker Evans

“There was only one commercial online company at the time, CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to…

— Felicia Day

'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated,…

— Katori Hall

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

— Anthony Trollope

I remember when I went to a gallery in Paris at one point, they had drawings of earthworks set in different places. I asked…

— Virginia Dwan