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"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."
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"Gardening is not a rational act."
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"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
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"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
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"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"
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"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
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"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
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"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama."
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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
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"The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him."
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"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."
Life
"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do."
Work
"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."
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"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."
Love
"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century."
Doubt
"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way."
Age
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
Art
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
Fact
"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."
Thinking
"We grow small trying to be great."
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