Ansel Adams
Photographer
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
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Landscape
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching."
Ali Khamenei
Political Leader
"The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography."
Claude Monet
Painter
"Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you."
John Luther Adams
Composer
"My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it."
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"Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity."
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"The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape."
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"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness."
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"These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession."
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"I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying."
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"I don't believe in the landscape."
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"The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does."
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"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment."
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"Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships."
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"By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber."
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"We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought."
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"I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth."
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"The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action."
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"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."
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"Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape."
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"All forms of landscape are autobiographical."
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"It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest."
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"On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon."
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"Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive."
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"The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away."
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