Quotes about Art in Nature

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. Votes: 3

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. Votes: 3

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. Votes: 2

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. Votes: 2

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. Votes: 2

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Votes: 2

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. Votes: 2

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Votes: 2

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. Votes: 2

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. Votes: 2

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. Votes: 2

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. Votes: 2

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. Votes: 2

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. Votes: 2

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. Votes: 2

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. Votes: 2

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. Votes: 2

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. Votes: 2

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. Votes: 2

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. Votes: 2

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Votes: 1

Nature constantly imitates art. Votes: 0

What is art? Nature concentrated. Votes: 0

Art is stronger than Nature Votes: 0

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. Votes: 0

Art, like Nature, has her monsters Votes: 0

Art is but imitation of nature. Votes: 0

Art is man added to Nature. Votes: 0

Art takes nature as its model. Votes: 0

Art is the child of Nature. Votes: 0

Nature is the art of God. Votes: 0

All of nature is God's art. Votes: 0

We by art unteach what Nature taught. Votes: 0

Choice and chance structure art and nature. Votes: 0

Art is the right hand of Nature. Votes: 0

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Votes: 0

Great art picks up where nature ends. Votes: 0

All art is but imitation of nature. Votes: 0

All art is but imitation of nature. Votes: 0

All art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 0

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. Votes: 0

Western art has a certain relationship to nature. Votes: 0

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. Votes: 0

Art is nature as seen through a temperament. Votes: 0

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it. Votes: 0

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. Votes: 0

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. Votes: 0

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Votes: 0

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. Votes: 0

All nature is but art unknown to thee. Votes: 0

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. Votes: 0

Everything in art is but a copy of nature. Votes: 0

The course of Nature is the art of God. Votes: 0

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it. Votes: 0

The course of Nature is the art of God Votes: 0

Art will never be able to exist without nature. Votes: 0

But what is art other than revealing human nature? Votes: 0

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape. Votes: 0

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. Votes: 0

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. Votes: 0

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. Votes: 0

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. Votes: 0

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. Votes: 0

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. Votes: 0

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. Votes: 0

For the nature of women is closely allied to art Votes: 0

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom." Votes: 0

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. Votes: 0

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. Votes: 0

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. Votes: 0

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. Votes: 0

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. Votes: 0

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. Votes: 0

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. Votes: 0

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. Votes: 0

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. Votes: 0

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. Votes: 0

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. Votes: 0

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature. Votes: 0

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature. Votes: 0

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. Votes: 0

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. Votes: 0

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. Votes: 0

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it. Votes: 0

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. Votes: 0

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. Votes: 0

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. Votes: 0

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. Votes: 0

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. Votes: 0

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Votes: 0

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. Votes: 0

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. Votes: 0

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Votes: 0

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature. Votes: 0

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Votes: 0

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. Votes: 0

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. Votes: 0

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Votes: 0

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. Votes: 0

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. Votes: 0

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. Votes: 0

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature. Votes: 0

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. Votes: 0

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. Votes: 0

My life is a work of art and nature is my temple! Votes: 0

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. Votes: 0

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. Votes: 0

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. Votes: 0

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. Votes: 0

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. Votes: 0

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. Votes: 0

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. Votes: 0

art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ... Votes: 0

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. Votes: 0

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. Votes: 0

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. Votes: 0

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Votes: 0

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. Votes: 0

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it. Votes: 0

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man. Votes: 0

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. Votes: 0

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. Votes: 0

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. Votes: 0

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. Votes: 0

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. Votes: 0

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Votes: 0

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art Votes: 0

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. Votes: 0

The nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. Votes: 0

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. Votes: 0

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. Votes: 0

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. Votes: 0

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature~? Votes: 0

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature? Votes: 0

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. Votes: 0

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. Votes: 0

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. Votes: 0

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. Votes: 0

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win. Votes: 0

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. Votes: 0

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. Votes: 0

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. Votes: 0

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Votes: 0

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. Votes: 0

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 0

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art. Votes: 0

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art. Votes: 0

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. Votes: 0

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? Votes: 0

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color. Votes: 0

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. Votes: 0

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. Votes: 0

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model... Votes: 0

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. Votes: 0

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. Votes: 0

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature. Votes: 0

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art. Votes: 0

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. Votes: 0

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. Votes: 0

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art. Votes: 0

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Votes: 0

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art. Votes: 0

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. Votes: 0

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. Votes: 0

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. Votes: 0

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing. Votes: 0

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. Votes: 0

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. Votes: 0

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. Votes: 0

Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that. Votes: 0

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. Votes: 0

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. Votes: 0

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Votes: 0

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Votes: 0

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. Votes: 0

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. Votes: 0

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. Votes: 0

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. Votes: 0

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. Votes: 0

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. Votes: 0

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Votes: 0

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. Votes: 0

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' Votes: 0

Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself. Votes: 0

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. Votes: 0

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. Votes: 0

Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Votes: 0

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? Votes: 0

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. Votes: 0

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Votes: 0

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. Votes: 0

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. Votes: 0

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. Votes: 0

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. Votes: 0

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. Votes: 0

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} Votes: 0

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. Votes: 0

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. Votes: 0

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand Votes: 0

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Votes: 0

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Votes: 0

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Votes: 0

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. Votes: 0

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. Votes: 0

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. Votes: 0

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. Votes: 0

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. Votes: 0

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. Votes: 0

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. Votes: 0

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. Votes: 0

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. Votes: 0

I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art. Votes: 0

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Votes: 0

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. Votes: 0

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. Votes: 0

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. Votes: 0

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. Votes: 0

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. Votes: 0

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. Votes: 0

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. Votes: 0

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot. Votes: 0

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. Votes: 0

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order. Votes: 0

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature. Votes: 0

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. Votes: 0

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished. Votes: 0

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. Votes: 0

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854) Votes: 0

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world. Votes: 0

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal. Votes: 0

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. Votes: 0

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. Votes: 0

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.] Votes: 0

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. Votes: 0

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.' Votes: 0

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. Votes: 0

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. Votes: 0

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. Votes: 0

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. Votes: 0

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. Votes: 0

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. Votes: 0

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Votes: 0

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. Votes: 0

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. Votes: 0

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. Votes: 0

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price. Votes: 0

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Votes: 0

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Votes: 0

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. Votes: 0

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. Votes: 0

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. Votes: 0

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably. Votes: 0

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system. Votes: 0

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. Votes: 0

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... Votes: 0

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature. Votes: 0

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow. Votes: 0

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." Votes: 0

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.... Votes: 0

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. Votes: 0

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 0

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 0

Beauty inspires me - beauty in nature, people, and art. Smells and fragrances too. I know it sounds weird, but I'm a "fume head." I'm very olfactory-driven. Votes: 0

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers. Votes: 0

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general. Votes: 0

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature"¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. Votes: 0

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences. Votes: 0

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. Votes: 0

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves. Votes: 0

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art. Votes: 0

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. Votes: 0

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now. Votes: 0

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. Votes: 0

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place. Votes: 0

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. Votes: 0

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. Votes: 0

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. Votes: 0

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. Votes: 0

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. Votes: 0

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Votes: 0

If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent. Votes: 0

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony. Votes: 0

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. Votes: 0

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in. Votes: 0

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. Votes: 0

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature. Votes: 0

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed. Votes: 0

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study. Votes: 0

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts. Votes: 0