Quotes About Nature

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

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

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

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

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

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

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

Art is the right hand of Nature.

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

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

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

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Everything I do is the environment.

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

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.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

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