Quotes About Inspiration

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.