Landscape Quotes - Page 4

• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

  Galen

  Tunes, Way, Audience

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• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  Edith Wharton

  Mind, Literature, Backgrounds

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• An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

  Tony Hillerman

  Wind, Smell, Feels

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• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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• The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Clear, Verses

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• Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesnt necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesnt really tell you what youre looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Views, Iceland

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Dark, Night, Yield

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• I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

  Ronnie Wood

  Horse, Paint

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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  Hannah Kent

  Writing, Iceland, Trying

  "'Burial Rites' author Hannah Kent finds mystery in Iceland". Interview with Randy Dotinga, www.csmonitor.com. November 29, 2013.

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• I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

  William Merritt Chase

  Believe, Sky, Painting

  D. Scott Atkinson, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., William Merritt Chase (1987). “William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902”, Universe Publishing(NY)

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• If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Ideas, Water

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• But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

  Richard Serra

  Trying, Characteristics, Site

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• Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

  Jens Jensen

  Life, Smile, Nature

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• I don't believe in the landscape.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Believe, Belief, Don't Believe

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

  Cecil Beaton

  Islands, Sky, Rose

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• Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

  Kate Green

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• The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Men, Absence

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2014). “What Is Philosophy?”, p.169, Columbia University Press

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• [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

  Joel Sartore

  Hard Work, Order, World

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• I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Thinking, Undervalued

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• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Children, Rain, Snow

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• Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Memories, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.170, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

  Gerald Brenan

  Anniversary, Wedding, Husband

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• It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Moving, Eye

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Eye, Simple, Views

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.39

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