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Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. — Aristotle.

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

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

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

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature. — Rudolf Steiner

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal. — Invader

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

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle — Joseph Campbell

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison

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

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window. — Karl Pilkington

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 is the right hand of Nature. — Friedrich Schiller

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

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

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

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. — Richard Wilbur

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

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

Nature is a divine art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour. — Paul Klee

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

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

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. — Seneca The Younger

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. — Rudolf Nureyev

All art is an imitation of nature. — Seneca The Elder

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

All art is but imitation of nature. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Choose only one master - Nature. — Rembrandt

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

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

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

Art will never be able to exist without nature. — Pierre Bonnard

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

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

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. — Marilyn French

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. — Camille

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

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. — Honore De Balzac

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

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

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

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

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God. — Thomas Browne

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

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. — Lucian Freud

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. — Rembrandt

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

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

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. — Patti Smith

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

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. — Louis Nizer

But what is art other than revealing human nature? — Marina Abramovic

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

Have you forgotten that love, like medicine, is simply the art of aiding nature? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

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

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

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer

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

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. — Thomas Reid

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

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

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art — Virginia Woolf

I see a sacred beautiful art. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art. — Amit Kalantri

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. — Thomas Browne

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. — Paul Cezanne

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

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

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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