Landscape Quotes
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The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have become habitual. They are part of our most familiar landscape, and we don't perceive them anymore. But most of them once scandalized people.
Michel Foucault
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A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
Walter J. Phillips
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Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.
Michael Bennet
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Ernest Dimnet
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Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
Rick Larsen
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Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.
David Bloor
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We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
Susan Davis
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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.
Robert Wilson
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Skin is a multilayered, multipurpose organ that shifts from thick to thin, tight to loose, lubricated to dry, across the landscape of the body. Skin, a knowledge-gathering device, responds to heat and cold, pleasure and pain. It lacks definitive boundaries, flowing continuously from the exposed surfaces of the body to its internal cavities. It is both living and dead, a self-repairing, self-replacing material whose exterior is senseless and inert while its inner layers are flush with nerves, glands, and capillaries.
Ellen Lupton
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To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
Wolf Kahn
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Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.
Kay Boyle
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In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.
Matt Smith Poison
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Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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 Wilson Lynd