Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum — Sculptor Charles Umlauf and his wife, Angeline, donated their house, studio and surrounding grounds to the city to be used as a sculpture garden. It now features more than 130 pieces of Charles Umlauf's internationally lauded artwork. It's an artistic coup for the city of Austin.
Gardens...
should be like lovely, well-shaped girls:
all curves,
secret corners, unexpected deviations,
seductive surprises and then still more curves.
— H.E. Bates,
from A Love of Flowers
The world, if it was not mine yesterday, now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. — John Cheever
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. — Theodore Roethke
You wander from garden to garden enchanted, as if walking among stars...each and all apparently doing their best with eager enthusiasm, as if everything depended on faithful shining. — John Muir
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are points of time, of distant memory, when the soul unites within the pattern of the universe. That union brings forth the understanding of life's harmony. So it should be within the garden ...
— Author Unknown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein
Umlauf Sculpture Garden
...and how to put one foot before the other!
You have to pick
the places
you don't walk
away from.
— Joan Didion
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