I did a salad, but I didn’t do a garden.
Roberto Burle Marx Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 4th August, 1909 |
| Death: | 4th June, 1994 |
| Nationality: | Brazilian |
| Profession: | Architect, Artist, Musician, Painter |
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Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer.
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