Atmosphere Quotes - Page 26

• A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,
  Sweet bath, suavely
  Scented with ointments,
  
  has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Hair, Hands

  "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

  47 Copy quote

• What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.

  Helen Humphreys

  Garden, People, Interesting

  Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "The Club of Queer Trades". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1905.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Smell, Theatre

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p. 172, 1983.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Air, Soul, Moral

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.39

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.

  Randall Jarrell

  Determination, Attitude, Writing

  "Recent Poetry," The Yale Review (p. 237), 1955.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  Emile Zola

  People, Gathering, Crowds

  Emile Zola (1984). “The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories”, Oxford University Press, USA

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Holiness, Might

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.58, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

  Peter Høeg

  Love Is, Recognition, Grows

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.306, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Design Process, Office

  4 Copy quote

• n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

  William Dean Howells

  Spring, Mean, Artist

  7 Copy quote

• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  Charles Wagner

  Men, Views, Justice

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

  Stefan Zweig

  Historical, Significance, Values

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.

  David Gordon Green

  Children, Animal, Creating

  Source: collider.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.

  Christopher Nolan

  Character, Actors, Safe

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

  John French Sloan

  Fear, Nine, Painting

  7 Copy quote

• A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet.

  James Elkins

  Dark, Feet, Shadow

  7 Copy quote

• When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing — she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.

  Mary GrandPre

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

  4 Copy quote

• In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.

  Allan Bloom

  Sex, Self, World

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Book, Breathe, Planes

  Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.

  Paul Tillich

  Bridges, Enlightenment, Bourgeoisie

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 116), 1952.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

  I. F. Stone

  Philosophy, Greatness, College

  F. Stone's Bi-Weekly, December 14, 1971.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source