Picturesque Quotes

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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.

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.

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.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.