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

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself. — Umberto Eco

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. — Thomas Carlyle

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man. — Thomas Browne

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. — Henry David Thoreau

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent Van Gogh

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth. — Auguste Rodin

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. — Jeet Aulakh

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. — Frank Moore Colby

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. — Auguste Rodin

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. — Emil Nolde

The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show - to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe. — Ayn Rand

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque. — Corin Nemec

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde

Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. — John Steinbeck

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. — Daniel J. Rice

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. — Jean-Francois Millet

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire. — Friedrich Schiller

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque

And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Vincent Van Gogh

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. — Claude Monet

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. — Barnett Newman

I do not paint in front of but from within nature. — Arshile Gorky

Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart.
I am in love with the universe and I praise nature's art. — Debasish Mridha

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing. — Pietro Aretino

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative. — Frederick Lenz

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. — Rebecca Miller

The best man can do is imitate nature with art. While nature can devour art and man. — A.E. Marling

For though, in nature, depth and height
Are equally held infinite:
In poetry, the height we know;
'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. — Louisa May Alcott

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold

Colors are light's suffering and joy — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God. — Plato

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished. — Sophia Loren

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. — Guillaume Apollinaire

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

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now. — Joseph Mitchell

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art. — Austin O'Malley

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. — Bertrand Russell

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art. — John Greenleaf Whittier

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. — Fernando Botero

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature. — John Connolly

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

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. — Malcolm De Chazal

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. — E.F. Schumacher

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature. — Penelope Hobhouse

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. — Beck

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. — Albert Camus

Choice and chance structure art and nature. — Frederick Sommer

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art. — Man Ray

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room. — Simon Van Booy

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. — Billy Al Bengston

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker

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

It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. — Edmund Burke

Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls. — Marty Rubin

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. — Thomas Carlyle

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. — Paul Gauguin

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Helen Rowland

Open spaces sing to my heart
of the art of nature and the nature of art. — Jay Woodman

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human. — Howard Morphy

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. — Kahlil Gibran

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water. — Lyonel Feininger

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. — Charles Tart

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws. — Dean Koontz

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature. — Joe Abercrombie

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. — Francis Bacon

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. — D.T. Suzuki

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough - see point one. — Douglas Adams

It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to want to put your horse in another man's stall. — David Gilbert

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. — Holly Black

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. — Winston S. Churchill

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. — Andy Warhol

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. — George Herbert Mead

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

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. — Edward Abbey

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature. — Immanuel Kant

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. — John Ruskin

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. — Daniel Bell

The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up. — Aristotle.

Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. — John Dryden

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