Quotes About Art

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

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.

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.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

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.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.