What difference does it
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? Ernest Hemingway
Picturesque
the lady is almost
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. … In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy’s camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men. Emily … Read more
It is… treading on
It is… treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. E. J. Hughes
The man who lies
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at … Read more
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. Friedrich Nietzsche
At bottom every man
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. Friedrich Nietzsche
In the vast archipelago
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,–islands in which the spice and perfume gardens … Read more
A classic,\’ suggested Anthony,
A classic,’ suggested Anthony, ‘is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it’s safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It’s acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature, like a gypsy,
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. Douglas William Jerrold
It is not enough
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. Dorothea Lange