Landscape Quotes - Page 11

• Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Upset, Bazaars

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Worst, Train

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

  Barry Lopez

  Nature, Home, Intelligent

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Sep 21, 2016

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• I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Numbers, Tree

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Reality, Abstract Painting

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Thinking, Hands

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mind, Want

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Mar 19, 2015

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• I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Interesting

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Sep 03, 2014

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• Under his spurning feet, the road
  Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
  And the landscape sped away behind
  Like an ocean flying before the wind.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Ocean, Wind, Rivers

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• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Phones, Way

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• Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

  Susie Orbach

  People, Culture, Slim

  "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Opportunity, Long

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• Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Light, Wind, Weather

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• A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

  Jonathan Ames

  Writing, Action, Form

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• The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

  Rick Bass

  Trying, Population, Culture

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• In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Attitude, War, Party

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• Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

  David Amram

  Black And White, Portraits, Village

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

  Susan Davis

  Reality, Warfare, Modern

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• Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, Numbers, Actors

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• While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

  James Frey

  Art, Categories, Given

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• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  Fay Godwin

  Black And White, Mediums, Knows

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• In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

  Jeff Goodell

  Jobs, Ocean, Views

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• There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

  Michael Arad

  Differences, Collaboration, Elements

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• I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Thinking, Hbo, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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