"Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy." — William Hazlitt
"Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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More Landscape Quotes
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one of 873 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
— Gerald Brenan
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned…
— David Byrne
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
— Paul Cezanne
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to…
— John Ciardi
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
— Isabel Allende
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