Quotes About Art

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

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

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

All gardening is landscape painting.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

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.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

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.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

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

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.