Quotes About Art

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

All of nature is God's art.

[A personÂ's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Nature is usually wrong.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.