Quotes About Nature

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

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

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

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

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

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

What thou art, that thou art.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

I must have flowers, always and always.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!

What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps our most essential nature.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Art is man's nature nature is God's art.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.