Roberto 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. If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

Dan Barber

#3. I live in a mixed marriage. I'm a girl. He's a boy...

Jane Jago

#4. History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#5. Curiosity keeps me alive.

Roberto Burle Marx

#6. Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Samuel Johnson

#7. All is fair in fashion and war.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#8. If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

Stephen Hunt

#9. Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

Kurt Schwitters

#10. What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?

David Mitchell

#11. I'm a plant eater.

Roberto Burle Marx

#12. 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

#13. We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Paul Haggis

#14. Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it's like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.

Maureen Corrigan

#15. With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

Quentin Blake

#16. You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Poppy Z. Brite

#17. My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin - with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don't care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm.

Stacey Lee

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

Roberto Burle Marx

#19. The boy smiled
mostly at Amy. "Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian right now.

Peter Lerangis