Art Quote by Tom Turner

“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo…

— Tom Turner

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

— Tom Turner

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

— Penelope Hobhouse

Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs…

— Tom Turner

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and…

— Luis Barragan

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…

— Roberto Burle Marx

“--Gardens, not buildings-- Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure. It works or…

— Seth Godin

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature…

— David E. Cooper

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature…

— Luis Barragan

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

— Elizabeth Murray

“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”

— Tom Turner