Painting Quote by Natasha Solomons

“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly…

— Rebecca Solnit

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,

— Lennart Meri

“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would…

— George Eliot

I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

“Love was the map, and I would have to draw it myself; I would be the most repentant cartographer, verve and passion making up…

— Mary O'Connell

“So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er uninhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns”

— Jonathan Swift

“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away…

— Terry Pratchett

“Gradually he realized that the Tube map was a handy fiction that made life easier but bore no resemblance to the reality of the…

— Neil Gaiman

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly;…

— John Betjeman

“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a…

— Elizabeth Knox

“Uncharted territory,” I said. “The parts on the maps of our lives that we don’t understand. In cartographer’s language they call these places sleeping…

— Christopher Barzak

“I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and…

— J.M. Barrie