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:
“When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination. When he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Wherever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognized as such, was what constituted reality for him.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)