Burle Marx Quotes

#1. 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.

Roberto Burle Marx

#2. Curiosity keeps me alive.

Roberto Burle Marx

#3. I'm a plant eater.

Roberto Burle Marx

#4. 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.

Roberto Burle Marx

#5. I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

Jane Campion

#6. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

John McCain

#7. My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

Tom Jones

#8. I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

#9. Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#10. He took a money clip out of his pocket, pulled off several bills. "Take it. It'll save you time.

J.D. Robb