Painted Desert

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 GrofĂ©'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:

    “The sleeping and the dead
    Are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood
    That fears a painted devil.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
    So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
    Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
    And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
    “Jug Jug” to dirty ears.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)