Roberto Burle Marx Quotes & Sayings

I'm a plant eater. — Roberto Burle Marx

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

Curiosity keeps me alive. — Roberto Burle Marx

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden. — Roberto Burle Marx

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