Quotes About Art

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

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?

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

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

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

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.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

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?

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.