Quotes About Art

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.