Skip to content

Art Quote by Tom Turner

“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 are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.” quote by Tom Turner — Download Open image

“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 are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings)

More by Tom Turner

From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings…

Image

“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible.…

Image

“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around…

Image

“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”

Image

“London is the world’s Garden Capital - as Los Angeles is its film capital, Paris its fashion capital and Bogata its narcotics capital.”

Image

“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the…

Image

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

Image

The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men,…

Image

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

Image

Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady…

Image

In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the…

Image

“To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly…

Image

Explore all 29 Tom Turner quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

Benjamin Franklin

Image

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

Justina Chen Headley

Image

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

Image

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Image

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

Image

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

Robert Aris Willmott

Image

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

Image

Browse all 48,652 Art quotes