William Kent quotes

William Kent quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“All gardening is landscape painting.”
-- William Kent

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“Garden as though you will live forever.”
-- William Kent

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“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”
-- William Kent

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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
“I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.”
“And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.”
“I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.”
“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
“Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.”
“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”
“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”
“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”
“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”

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