Quotes about Art of Nature

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. Votes: 3

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. Votes: 3

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it. Votes: 3

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. Votes: 3

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature. Votes: 3

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art. Votes: 3

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Votes: 3

Feeding birds means feeding yourself! Birds are part of nature and feeding nature is nothing but feeding yourself! Votes: 3

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. Votes: 3

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. Votes: 3

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature. Votes: 3

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. Votes: 3

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. Votes: 3

Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees. Votes: 3

Evolution is a part of nature. The world has strayed away from God, and now interprets its conception for the benefit of blissful ignorance. Votes: 3

We are part of nature. We are here to bloom like a flower- to ornate the earth with beauty, love, joy, happiness, and care. Votes: 3

Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge. Votes: 3

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems. Votes: 3

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us, to save nature, is to save us. Votes: 3

We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that. Votes: 3

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair. Votes: 3

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences. Votes: 3

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect. Votes: 3

The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost. Votes: 3

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature. Votes: 3

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries. Votes: 3

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. Votes: 3

In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. Votes: 3

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature. Votes: 3

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival. Votes: 3

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways. Votes: 3

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely. Votes: 3

The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present. Votes: 3

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. Votes: 3

A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature. Votes: 3

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. Votes: 3

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an Votes: 3

Nature is the art of God. Votes: 2

All art is but imitation of nature. Votes: 2

The course of Nature is the art of God. Votes: 2

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

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. Votes: 2

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. Votes: 2

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. Votes: 2

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Votes: 2

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

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. Votes: 2

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. Votes: 2

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Votes: 2

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

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Votes: 2

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Votes: 2

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

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. Votes: 2

Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' Votes: 2

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: 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

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

Art, like Nature, has her monsters Votes: 0

Art takes nature as its model. Votes: 0

Art is the child of Nature. Votes: 0

Art is man added to Nature. Votes: 0

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

All art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 0

All art is but imitation of nature. Votes: 0

Great art picks up where nature ends. Votes: 0

We by art unteach what Nature taught. Votes: 0

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Votes: 0

Art is the right hand of Nature. Votes: 0

Choice and chance structure art and nature. Votes: 0

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

Western art has a certain relationship to nature. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The course of Nature is the art of God 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

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

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

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. 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

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

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

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

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. 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

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

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

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

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without 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 quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. 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 beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. 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

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

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 a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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: 0

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 0

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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: 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

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

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: 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