Roberto Burle Marx Quotes

A collection of quotes by Roberto Burle Marx.

Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect and artist renowned for his influential work in garden design. He was born in São Paulo and studied fine arts in Germany, where he was exposed to modernist landscape movements that greatly shaped his aesthetic. Burle Marx was a pioneer in using native Brazilian plants, experimenting with bold colors and unique patterns in his landscape designs. He played a significant role in defining the modernist Brazilian style, combining elements of art, ecology, and architecture in his creations. His work has left a lasting impact on the field of landscape architecture worldwide.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions an

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

Gardening