Quotes used in the Easton Art Map
Clockwise from top left.
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
"Maps are too important to be left to cartographers alone." Deconstructing the Map by J.B. Harley.
"Maps are the most condensed humanised spaces of all... They make the landscapes fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can’t see and spaces we can’t cover." Eccentric Spaces by Robert Harbison.
"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected." Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larson.
"Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life." Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith.
"To understand a particular patch of land, to actually enter into it requires a willingness to know it as ‘this place’ rather than to become acquainted with it as
a location in space, an area on a map." Between Carterhaugh and Tamshiel Rig: a borderline episode by Iain Biggs.
"Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture." Soft City by Jonathan Raban."A good map is both a useful tool and a magic carpet to far away places." Anon.
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
"Maps are too important to be left to cartographers alone." Deconstructing the Map by J.B. Harley.
"Maps are the most condensed humanised spaces of all... They make the landscapes fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can’t see and spaces we can’t cover." Eccentric Spaces by Robert Harbison.
"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected." Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larson.
"Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life." Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith.
"To understand a particular patch of land, to actually enter into it requires a willingness to know it as ‘this place’ rather than to become acquainted with it as
a location in space, an area on a map." Between Carterhaugh and Tamshiel Rig: a borderline episode by Iain Biggs.
"Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture." Soft City by Jonathan Raban."A good map is both a useful tool and a magic carpet to far away places." Anon.