Quotes About Inspiration

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.