Quotes About Inspiration

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Human nature is to need a map. If you're brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!