Avenues Quote by Volkmar Wentzel

“The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.…

— Charlotte Brontë

I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north…

— Irving Penn

“…eerie in a way it is nowhere else in the world, the flats receding and the low hills rising as if they are just…

— Dean Koontz

At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“A horizontal band of amber sunlight smoldered beneath banks of gunmetal clouds, like lamplight leaking from beneath a closed door.”

— Sibella Giorello

“The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of…

— Thomas Hardy

the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

— Paul Emsley

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in…

— William Faulkner