Painted Desert may refer to:
In places:
- Painted Desert (Arizona), an area of badlands in the southwestern United States
- Painted Desert (South Australia), a mountainous area in south-central Australia
- Painted Desert, a neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, US
In entertainment:
- The Painted Desert, a 1931 film starring Clark Gable
- "The Painted Desert," the second movement of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite
- "The Painted Desert," a 1985 single by Pat Benatar from her 1984 album Tropico
- "The Painted Desert," a song by 10,000 Maniacs from their 1987 album In My Tribe
- Painted Desert Serenade, a 1993 album by Joshua Kadison
Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or desert:
“It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his “nocturnes” answered: “All of my life.” With the same rigor he could have said that all of the centuries that preceded the moment when he painted were necessary. From that correct application of the law of causality it follows that the slightest event presupposes the inconceivable universe and, conversely, that the universe needs even the slightest of events.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)