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Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. — Albrecht Durer

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world. — Franz Marc

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery. — Erica Goros

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — Francis Bacon

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. — Paul Gauguin

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

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard

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

I have heard it said
There is an art which in their piedness shares
With great creating nature. — William Shakespeare

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. — William Shakespeare

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

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

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. — Georges Vantongerloo

Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born. — Jacqueline Delange

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. — Edwin Forrest

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot. — Flora Thompson

An industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art. — Charles Baudelaire

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs. — John F. Carlsons

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. — Steve Lacy

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

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

Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside. — Jincy Willett

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

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

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

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

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

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

All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons. — Matsuo Basho

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in
a fight. — Emanuel Lasker

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. — Edgar Degas

Everything in art is but a copy of nature. — Seneca The Younger

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature. — Auguste Rodin

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

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. — Aristotle.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher ... — John Constable

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price. — Sarah Josepha Hale

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. — Richard Jefferies

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

I am the eye that beholds ... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky ... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love. — Solange Nicole

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste. — Og Mandino

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. — Anton Webern

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. — Elie Metchnikoff

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature. — Aristotle.

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

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. — Paul Gauguin

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. — Marcus Aurelius

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. — John Updike

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. — James A. Garfield

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it. — Albrecht Durer

The art of hiding in plain sight used to be second nature, and now it has become the whole of him — Helen Dunmore

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. — Robert Delaunay

...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes. — Dante Alighieri

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

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854) — Charles Negre

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

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

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. — Philip Jose Farmer

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

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself. — W. H. Auden

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature. — Alexis Carrel

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. — Joseph Kosuth

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. — John Burroughs

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

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

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. — Mike MacDonald

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

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. — Voltaire

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi

Art is not about beauty, art is an expression. — Vikram Roy

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. — Henry James

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie

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

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils — Leonardo Da Vinci

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature. — Aristotle.

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. — J.G. Holland

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

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

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

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