Art Quote by Robert Smithson

“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

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the…

— Jessica Stockholder

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

However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.

— Michael Frome

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

— Douglas Tompkins

“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a…

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass,…

— Ben Aaronovitch

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

— Robert Smithson

“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

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed…

— Jane Jacobs

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are…

— Enos Mills

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

— Michael Frome