“But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.” IfsRealityDesireArtistFunBreakCreationColdAmbitionGardenFortunatePersistRivalsSlamSprayLamentClerksTweakArtists And Writers Author:Rick Bayan
“I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.” IfsArtUseArtistGrowsCan DoInspiringPiecesTreeGardenPlantSoilGardeningCanvasGraffitiEmbellishment Author:Ron Finley
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.” WorldChildrenPersonsArtAbleSchoolArtistKnowingIssuesStudentsFameHigh SchoolGardenTheaterMusicalSexualityDancerLos AngelesGeekCountyTruestKindergartenHallways Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.” KnowsArtistWaterRoomsGardenGalleryLiliesDentistDormsMonetDorm RoomsWater Lily Author:Ari Shapiro
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.” ArtistColorShapesOrdinaryGardenPlantIntentionComplexesLandscapeUnusualAestheticGardeningPlasticVolumeDoomedTrue HappinessDisappearance Author:Roberto Burle Marx
“I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.” ThinkingWayArtArtistGardenBritishVisualsVisual Artist Author:Jerry Saltz
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” ArtArtistVisionCreativityCreativeDesignGardenLaborPaidPainterPositive ThoughtsTattooFine ArtsBeing An ArtistFamous ArtistCreative ArtistsArt And ArtistsArt And CreativityInspirational ArtistInspiration And CreativityArtists And CreativityInspirational ArtGreat VisionGraphic ArtistCreative VisionDesign And ArtInspiring ArtArt DesignInspiring ArtistArt InspirationPassion For Art Author:James Whistler
“...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.” LongDesireArtistOrderSocialAnimalRaceBreakSadnessDrugLetting GoGardenEmbraceNotesFleshIntenseCelebrateReleaseGrassCensorshipBladesMarathonMistressRuthlessAdorationCelestialShepherdsPolishedHeroinesServitudeFieryHowlCastesSocial OrderMonotonyBlades Of GrassNever Let Go Author:Patti Smith
“The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.” WayWellsDifferentEyeArtistCan DoLinesVisionSeeingColorGardenScientistDifferent WaysAweVibrate Book:In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons Source: In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons
“The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.” ArtistGardenSatisfiedGardener Author:H. E. Bates
“A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.” PastLawArtistNaturalResultsMistakeMaterialsGardenAffectionAestheticArrangementsOutlookPast ExperiencesOutlook On LifeNatural Materials Author:Roberto Burle Marx
“Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.” WorldLifeFirstsArtWholeSeemsBeautifulArtistAttentionExampleReturnGardenSightLandscapeWorks Of ArtGlobesStatuesSonnetOutlines Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us” PastPoliticalArtistValuesSocialCenturyIdealsGardenFinishedGardeningRepresentation20th CenturySculpture18th CenturySocial ValuesFinished Work Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings