|

|

Advertisements

Landscape Quotes

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature Picture Quote #1

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 . Picture Quote #1

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it’s come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic Picture Quote #1

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics Picture Quote #1

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful Picture Quote #1

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties Picture Quote #1

It’s just that when I work on someone else’s land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape Picture Quote #1

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea Picture Quote #1

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape Picture Quote #1

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference Picture Quote #1

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape Picture Quote #1

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry Picture Quote #1

Buffalo is one of America’s great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design Picture Quote #1

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant Picture Quote #1

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I’m also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You’re focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents Picture Quote #1

I’ve always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing ‘Chance,’ it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I’ve ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance’s head Picture Quote #1

For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it’s not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space Picture Quote #1

Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience Picture Quote #1

If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as though feelings were always attached to a certain landscape Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer’s ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life Picture Quote #1

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art Picture Quote #1

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century Picture Quote #1

Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar, Master Li saidIs it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history? Picture Quote #1

It’s not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it’s been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible Picture Quote #1

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors Picture Quote #1

1 - 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature (Landscape Quotes) 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 . (Landscape Quotes) In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it’s come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic (Landscape Quotes) I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics (Landscape Quotes) In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful (Landscape Quotes) I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative (Landscape Quotes) The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties (Landscape Quotes) It’s just that when I work on someone else’s land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape (Landscape Quotes) His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea (Landscape Quotes) In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape (Landscape Quotes) Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference (Landscape Quotes) The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape (Landscape Quotes) My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape (Landscape Quotes) Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden (Landscape Quotes) 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 (Landscape Quotes) While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry (Landscape Quotes) Buffalo is one of America’s great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design (Landscape Quotes) Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another (Landscape Quotes) Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant (Landscape Quotes) This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I’m also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You’re focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents (Landscape Quotes) I’ve always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing ‘Chance,’ it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I’ve ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance’s head (Landscape Quotes) For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it’s not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space (Landscape Quotes) Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience (Landscape Quotes) If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as though feelings were always attached to a certain landscape (Landscape Quotes) As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer’s ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life (Landscape Quotes) We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art (Landscape Quotes) Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. (Landscape Quotes) Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar, Master Li saidIs it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history? (Landscape Quotes) It’s not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it’s been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. (Landscape Quotes) In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors. (Landscape Quotes)

1 - 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17