Nature Art Quotes
Nature Art Quote of the day
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
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.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
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.
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.
The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.
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.
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.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
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.
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.
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
