Quotes About Art

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.