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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.
I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.
Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
The landscape of daytime has changed. I'm not so sure people go to daytime TV for kumbaya moments anymore.
It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.
I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.
If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.
PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.
All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
A stuffy Capitol Hill hearing room differs quite a bit from the wide open, rural landscape of Louisa County, Va.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
An improving credit landscape means fewer loans are delinquent - and fewer people are needed to service these loans.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.