Quotes About Nature

The art of art... is simplicity.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

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

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

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

All art is but imitation of nature.

A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

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

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

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.