Landscape Quotes - Page 18

• Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Morning, Block, Sunday

  Samuel R. Delany, Carl Howard Freedman (2009). “Conversations with Samuel R. Delany”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

  David L. Ulin

  Reading, Resistance, Distraction

  "In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Song, Wine

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.

  Henry Rollins

  Religious, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Country, Moving, Inspiration

  "Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists". Book by Mara R. Witzling, 1991.

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• Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Men, Primitive Man, Drawing

  Studio International 171, p. 280, June 1966.

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• The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Encounters, Avant Garde, Territory

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• For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Stars, Dark

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Spin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Atheist, Stars

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.191, Macmillan

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• In pitch dark
  I go walking in your landscape
  Broken branches
  Trip me as I speak
  Just 'cause you feel it
  Doesn't mean it's there...
  We are accidents waiting
  Waiting to happen.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Dark, Broken

  "Song: 'There There'". 2003.

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• There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.

  Neal Ascherson

  Powerful, Men, Rocks

  Neal Ascherson (2014). “Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland”, p.26, Granta Books

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• The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

  Fritz Todt

  Spiritual, Unique, Cities

  "Fritz Todt: Baumeister des Dritten Reiches". Book by Franz W. Seidler, p. 113, 1986.

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• Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Desert, Way, Taste

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.179, Harvard University Press

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• I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

  Marsden Hartley

  Essence, Saws, Firsts

  Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, James Timothy Voorhies (2002). “My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915”, p.58, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  People, Doe, Edges

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• After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

  Ron Parker

  Years, Oil, Needs

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• My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.

  Ted Godwin

  Way, Currents

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• 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.

  Paul Emsley

  Fall, Light, Shadow

  "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

  Paterson Ewen

  Art, Believe, Faces

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• There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

  Douglas Portway

  Hands, Mind, Essentials

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• A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

  Keith Shackleton

  Feelings, Landscape Painting, Demonstration

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• Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

  George L. Carlson

  Light, Work Out, Vitality

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• The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

  Malcolm Morley

  Ideas, Lost, No Idea

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• Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Nature, Men

  James Jackson Jarves (1960). “The art-idea”

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• We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Weather, Use, Patterns

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