Picturesque Quotes

Picturesque Quote of the day

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.

do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free