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Quotes About Inspiration

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
~ William Wordsworth
Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
~ Jonathan Edwards
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The mountains are calling and I must go.
~ John Muir
We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.
~ Tadao Ando
Everything comes from the great book of nature.
~ Antonio Gaudi
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
~ Robert Wyland
Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.
~ Karl Blossfeldt
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
~ William Blake
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
~ Ansel Adams
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
~ Henri Matisse
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.
~ Emily Carr
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
~ Art Wolfe
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
~ Victor Hugo
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
~ Ansel Adams
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
~ Caravaggio
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
~ Charles Tart
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
~ Paul Cezanne
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
~ Eric Hoffer