Quotes About Art

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.