Landscape Quotes

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.