Top 1200 Landscape Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

Landscape is history made visible.

The West to me is where the landscape is.

To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

I don't believe in the landscape.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

You change the landscape in Hollywood with action, not words.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

Digital Darinism is already changing the landscape of business.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

I get excited by landscape.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

All gardening is landscape painting.

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because it's inside, it's dark, and so they don't see anything. I don't think I've ever yet, in any of my books, described a landscape. There's really nothing of the kind in any of them. I only ever write concepts. And so I'm always referring to "mountains" or "a city" or "streets." But as to how they look: I've never produced a description of a landscape. That's never even interested me.

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

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.

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.

Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many of us Australia is just there but how many of us have really seen it, have seen Kakadu or Kings Canyon? I know I hope to at some stage, to see Uluru at sunset and the ancient art in the Abrakurrie caves. I think it's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

The new social landscape is rich with emotion.

The viral landscape is shifting and changing.

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.

Landscape affects you.

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Landscape shapes culture

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.