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.
Marguerite Gardiner

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

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.
Primo Levi

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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.
James Weldon Johnson

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