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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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.
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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.
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.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.