Appreciate Quote by Jane Jacobs

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between…

— Olafur Eliasson

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

— Robert Smithson

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind…

— Michael Kenna

“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea…

— Karen R. Jones & John Wills

“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, where in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination…

— Sherwood Anderson

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether…

— Tim Walker

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

— Robert Smithson

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

“It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his or her…

— Michael Jackson

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

— Barbara Hepworth

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

— Ed Kowalczyk