Quotes of Landscape - somelinesforyou

“ The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes. ”

- Walter Mosley

“ I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. ”

- Chris Bailey

“ The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated Twentieth Century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography… ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. ”

- Sir Cecil Beaton

“ Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. ”

- Vincent D’Onofrio

“ There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ”

- Josephine Hart

“ Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. ”

- John Hurt

“ As the 1960s began, jazz music was still at an apex, with hard bop groups led by the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane remaining a force on the musical landscape. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history. ”

- Richard E. Lingenfelter

“ His was a landscape of amiable codgers, nurturing moms, adorable dogs, callow soldiers with hearts of gold-grown-up Boy Scouts all. ”

- Arthur C. Danto

“ Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. ”

- James H. Douglas

“ For God, history is a landscape of events. For Him, nothing really follows sequentially since everything is co-present. ”

- Paul Virilio

“ It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ All gardening is landscape painting. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. ”

- Albert Camus

“ As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio. ”

- Augustine Birrell

“ I'm not into the whole showbiz scene. ”

- Samantha Mumba

“ What does the painting mean? ”

- Jackson Pollock

“ With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. ”

- Joni Mitchell

“ Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything. ”

- George Cukor

“ Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. ”

- Howard Hawks

“ Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. ”

- Unknown

“ The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ”

- Robert Lynd

“ All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit as a robber. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. ”

- Mervyn Peake
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