William Wordsworth Quotes

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and if I want to look, like, at tulip gardens, or, like, Georgian gardens, i love English gardens, how they're laid out. Japanese gardens, Asian gardens. So, I'm kind of a frustrated landscaper.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I love architecture.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Architecture is invention.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.