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“Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?”

Should Painting Garden Setting Settings Remembered Painting A Picture

Author:Beatrix Farrand

“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

Knows Men Way Want Looks Ideas Country Running Past House Know How Generations Painting Revolution Kings Garden Army Factories Regimes Estates Pointing Mistress Souvenirs Country Houses

Author:Peter Weiss

“My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.”

Mind Littles Book Country Facts House Interest Numbers Position Painting Smart Garden Dresses Train Immense Cuisine Snob Tapestry Pretty Woman Country Houses

Author:Frank Crowninshield

“I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.”

Two Kids Four Painting Dad Office Garden Including Fishes Posts Shops Uncles Centre Chips Retired Own Business Decorating Post Office Fish And Chips Lancashire

Author:Rick Astley

“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”

Way Values Enemy Pieces Creation Painting Goes On Garden Passing Passings Useless Sculpture Gardener Parting Time Passing Slippery Time Passes Time Goes On Countdown

Book:My Garden (Book)

Source: My Garden (Book)

“Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.”

Painting Masters Garden Corners Paradise Mice Snakes Appearing Dutch

Author:Mason Cooley

“People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.”

People World Looks Littles Book Soul Strong Progress Design Painting Flower Garden Tables Details Symbols Cherish Bathroom Soap Interior Design

Author:Charlotte Moss

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

Ifs World Want Humans Soul Spirituality Literature Music Clear Painting Garden Architecture Absence Paradise Thrive Gardening Great Garden

Author:Thomas Moore

“The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.”

Years Firsts Stills Cities Painting Six Garden Delight Realised Six Year Olds Madrid

Author:Carolina Herrera

“All gardening is landscape painting.”

Beauty Design Painting Garden Landscape Gardening Landscape Painting

Author:William Kent

“How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to reflect a culture - ways of painting nature, for example, or representing nature in literature, or of course making gardens.”

People World Way Culture Courses Literature Natural Example Painting Garden Bounds Natural World Representing

Author:David E. Cooper

“The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.”

Real Painting Buddhism Achievement Garden Buddhist Tea Rejection Galaxy Ceremony Great Achievement

Author:Diego Cortez

“All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.”

Said Painting Garden Landscape Gardening Pope Landscape Painting

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.”

May Art Design Painting Garden Gardening Gardener Liberal Arts Garden Love

Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.”

Men Wells Said Matter Courses Painting Flower Garden

Author:Claude Monet