Zitat des Tages über Malerisch / Picturesque:
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
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.
Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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.
