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  • I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. -- Grimes
  • Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. -- Mary Lascelles
  • Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. -- Alexander Rodchenko
  • (Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough. -- Jean-Luc Godard
  • Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass. -- Alexandra David-Neel
  • Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings. -- William Hurrell Mallock
  • Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal -- John Berger
  • Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. -- Fay Godwin
  • The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. -- Dario Argento
  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. -- Gavin Rossdale
  • The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. -- Dave Reichert
  • Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. -- David Suzuki
  • Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. -- Werner Herzog
  • South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa. -- Tariq Ramadan
  • Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. -- Jonathan Sacks
  • The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. -- Derek Walcott
  • There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. -- Gustav Klimt
  • 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
  • The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. -- Washington Irving
  • We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world. -- Louis Bacon
  • I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. -- Ken Burns
  • We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • As you wake up to sort of Morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes... I saw landscapes and visual stuff that I'll never forget. It was special. -- Jim Sturgess
  • Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence. -- Joanna Scott
  • The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. -- Sarah Parcak
  • Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. -- Paul Bloom
  • Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes - at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do. -- Bjork
  • Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life. -- Rob Manuel
  • I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali. -- Stefan Sagmeister
  • We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I like America's diversity and its landscapes. -- John Lydon
  • Works of art are landscapes of the mind. -- Ted Godwin
  • Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
  • The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance. -- Michael Dolan
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  • We travel to see beauty of souls in new landscapes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel. -- Blake Lively
  • Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes. -- Paul Theroux
  • I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers. -- Elliott Erwitt
  • These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. -- Claude Monet
  • Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. -- Keith Ferrazzi
  • Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones. -- Marty Rubin
  • None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. -- John Muir
  • I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
  • We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I see planets that don't exist and landscapes that have only been dreamed. -- Werner Herzog
  • I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals. -- Werner Herzog
  • Don't look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there. -- Gerald Causse
  • On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better. -- Jean-Luc Godard
  • My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way. -- Ted Godwin
  • If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. -- Gerhard Richter
  • Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter. -- Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
  • I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. -- Francisco Costa
  • Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. -- Susan Sontag
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  • I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. -- DJ Spooky
  • The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. -- Robert Henri
  • Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. -- Kate Braverman
  • I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me. -- Ella Henderson
  • All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. -- Francis Bacon
  • Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . -- Robert Smithson
  • Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures. -- Michael Bennet
  • All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like. -- William Hazlitt
  • I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
  • My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... -- Gerhard Richter
  • By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do. -- Jacques Lecoq
  • I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there. -- Gretel Ehrlich
  • [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. -- Joel Sartore
  • For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. -- Rory Bremner
  • 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
  • I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important. -- E. J. Hughes
  • I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. -- J. G. Ballard
  • 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
  • I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. -- David Byrne
  • The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique brand. -- Keith Ferrazzi
  • I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes. -- Ken Burns
  • Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions. -- Anne Hebert
  • It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. -- Alain de Botton
  • Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no. -- Michael Wilbon
  • Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes -- Tim Benton
  • In Hawaii, they're happy to hear that you're filming a show. They love it that people actually come and make use of their beautiful landscapes. -- Rachelle Lefevre
  • I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes. -- Karen Russell
  • When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes. -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge. -- C. S. Lewis
  • I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that - so, it's interesting. -- Zack Snyder
  • Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs. -- David Holmgren
  • The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us. -- Alan Moore
  • They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives -- Jim Perrin
  • Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. -- Sergei Eisenstein
  • Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their coarse and nauseous colors near. -- Thomas Yalden
  • The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes. -- Madame de Stael
  • Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare for others to see? -- damali ayo
  • Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. -- Elinor Wylie
  • 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
  • New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes. -- Lana Del Rey
  • Finding mechanisms for putting carbon back into landscapes enhances biodiversity. More biodiverse ecosystems store more carbon, more securely and are more resilient to the impacts of climate change. -- Will Steffen
  • Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. -- Ajay Naidu
  • An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about"¦go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things. -- Gary Jennings
  • An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph. -- Michael Kenna
  • These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel. -- Claude Monet
  • Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas. -- Gary A. Kowalski
  • I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea. -- Peter Garrett
  • On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. -- J. K. Rowling
  • All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy? -- Emile M. Cioran
  • I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids. -- Graeme Le Saux
  • The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life. -- Hanya Yanagihara
  • As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth. -- Dale Pendell
  • The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others. -- J. B. Jackson
  • As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. -- James Salter
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