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:
“Here thou art painted in the dress
Of an inhuman murderess;
Examining upon our hearts
Thy fertile shop of cruel arts:
Engines more keen than ever yet
Adorned tyrant’s cabinet,
Of which the most tormenting are
Black eyes, red lips, and curled hair.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“What though the traveler tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle that we must sacrifice our America and today to some man’s ill-remembered and indolent story? Carnac and Luxor are but names, or if their skeletons remain, still more desert sand and at length a wave of the Mediterranean Sea are needed to wash away the filth that attaches to their grandeur. Carnac! Carnac! here is Carnac for me. I behold the columns of a larger
and purer temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)