If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Garden as though you will live forever.

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.