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“Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.”

Matter Levels Drink Travel No Matter What Speed Mood Landscape Upset Improving Irresistible Railway Bazaars

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.”

Worst Travel Train Landscape

Book:The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

“The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.”

Firsts Littles Long Book Different Character Stories Use Language Novel Approach Landscape Different Characters Diction Different Approach Use Of Language Long Book

Author:Donna Tartt

“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.”

Stills Character Light Courses Darkness Paint Landscape Dimensions Texture Light And Darkness Still Life

Author:John Hurt

“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.”

“I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.”

Want Art Found Force Numbers Tree Painting Determined Focused Contrary Landscape Perceive Canvas Lacking Exactness Blurry

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.”

Ifs Art Stills Shows Reality Painting Landscape Abstract Yearning Abstract Painting

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.”

Thinking Wells Art Stills Use Hands Painting Logic Paint Photograph Productions Details Landscape Abstract Abstraction

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.”

Knows Want Mind Art Painting Paint Photograph Seeking Landscape Untrue

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.”

Feels Art Real Desire Interesting Painting Periods Connections Attraction Landscape Romanticism Homage

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowly alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind.”

Behinds Feet Wind Ocean Rivers Flying Landscape Sped Alpine

Author:Thomas Buchanan Read

“Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.”

Way Religious Internet Phones Landscape Evolve Revolutionary Mobile Defence Altered Organisation Selective Mobile Phones

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.”

People Culture Fats Landscape Visuals Slim Fat People

Author:Susie Orbach

“I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.”

Ifs Firsts Long Kids Wanted Opportunity Break Wife Decided My Wife Landscape Burned Time Off Burned Out

Author:Chris O'Donnell

“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.”

Important Whole Light Force Wind Scene Weather Landscape Neglect

Author:Robert Fitzgerald

“With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.”

Kind Important Stories Empty Western Landscape

Author:Lawrence Kasdan

“A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.”

Writing Action Form Term Seeing Landscape

Author:Jonathan Ames

“The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.”

World Way Trying Seems Form Culture Individual Natural Seeing Shapes Madness Population Landscape Natural World Blinders

Author:Rick Bass

“In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.”

Ifs War Matter Certain Party Attitude Clear Battle Behavior Gender Landscape Winner Outcomes Preoccupation

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“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.”

May Stills Whole Black White Known Wonderful Painting Series Landscape Village Black And White Portraits Gorgeous Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:David Amram

“We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.”

Reality Modern Landscape Warfare Battlefields Modern Warfare

Author:Susan Davis

“Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.”

I Can Sometimes Reason Whole Jobs Actors Numbers Behinds Scene Scripts Landscape Location Behind The Scenes

Author:Viola Davis

“While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.”

World Writing Mind Two Cold Mountain Clever Vulnerable Landscape Climbs Maps Southern Geography Carolina North Carolina Two Worlds Appalachia Folktales Cold Mountain

Author:Charles Frazier

“There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.”

Art Artist Given Please Contemporary Landscape Categories Publishing Contemporary Art

Author:James Frey

“Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.”

Knows Black White Mediums Landscape Black And White

Author:Fay Godwin

“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”

States Jobs United Views United States Ocean Landscape Good Job Iconic No Respect Postcards

Author:Jeff Goodell

“There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.”

Differences Elements Theater Bounds Artistic Landscape Collaboration Lighting

Author:Michael Arad

“I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.”

Thinking Important Done Shows Hands Asks Tvs Landscape Smarter Hbo

Author:Patrick J. Adams

“London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.”

Book Character Imagination London Landscape My Imagination

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.”

Life Home Stars Nature Freedom Teach Sun Tree Fields Flower Lessons Smile Landscape Giants Life Lesson Entitled Disturbance Open Fields Landscaping

Author:Jens Jensen

“Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.”

Stories Numbers Cities Offers Unique Murder Police Blue Authenticity Landscape Visuals Providing Flavor Detroit Collars Michigan Slang Blue Collar

Author:Michael Imperioli

“I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.”

Mind States Young My Own Growing Up Growing Car Adults West Western Young Adult Landscape State Of Mind Motorcycle Nevada

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.”

Art Culture Creative Painting Flower Periods Drama Skills Landscape Anarchy Gardening Arrangements Culmination Japanese Culture Landscape Painting No Drama

Author:John Roberts

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