Quotes About Inspiration

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

For man is by nature an artist.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.