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Quotes About Art

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.
~ Vanessa Veselka
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
~ Walter J. Phillips
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
~ William Hazlitt
I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
~ William Shakespeare
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
~ Yukio Mishima
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.
~ Andy Warhol
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
~ Claude Monet
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
~ William Shakespeare
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
~ Victor Hugo
Open spaces sing to my heartof the art of nature and the nature of art.
~ Jay Woodman
In the fall nature informs us of its artistic side. It again confirms the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.
~ Brent M. Jones
When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.
~ Yosa Buson
Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens.
~ Donna Kasubeck
The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human nature.
~ Gabor Gürtler
Choose only one master — Nature.
~ Rembrandt, Rembrandt Drawings
I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM
~ Dez Schwartz, Roam
However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.
~ Crit Kincaid, A Wounded World
I see a sacred beautiful art.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!
~ David Almond, Skellig
It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.
~ Catherine Amy Dawson Scott